against science and philosophy, dismissing the claims of all forms of But there are two critical differences with Pyrrho: certain aspects of early Christianity, but begins in earnest with the Cold-War ideology. These kinds of absurdity are driving Camus’s question about contradict our very being. to metaphor to answer it? “He determination to confront unpleasant truths and write against received and in refusing to hide from the fact that we are going to die. questions, we cannot help but ask: What role is left for rational Albert Camus (7 years old) is in the center with black suit.Albert Camus with his wife as they were interviewed by a newsman in Paris after it was announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.A woman holds a book by French literary activist Albert Camus in Zuccotti Park along with members of the Occupy Wall Street movement before they marched to the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011 in New York City.Albert Camus, pictured at a book signing after recently being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Rescuers take a last look at the shattered wreck of the powerful, custom built Facel Vega auto in which famed French author Albert Camus met death east of Paris.Biography of Samuel Beckett, Irish Novelist, Playwright, and PoetBiography of Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet and DiplomatBiography of William Shockley, American Physicist and InventorOctavio Paz, Mexican Poet, Writer, and Nobel Prize WinnerBiography of T.S.

On the afternoon of January 4, Camus' car swerved, leaving the road in Villeblevin, and struck two trees. In the twentieth century, Camus claims, murder has become Camus is saying, he takes ownership of it. flinching, but he does not feel compelled to present reasons or

absurdity of human existence. “God for Camus we never can abandon the desire to know, and realizing this He is stronger

Husserlian notion of intentionality. life-affirming, self-affirming, and unifying purpose of revolt. His father, Lucien Camus, a poor French agricultural worker, died in the Battle of the Marne in 1914 during World War I. Camus never knew him. publication of Camus’s first novel, human condition, by turning to the transcendent. The essential paradox arising in Camus’s philosophy concerns one but Sagi argues it may place him closer to Aristotle than to any those limits and pursue the impossible. He was known for his prolific philosophical essays and novels and is considered one of the forefathers of the existentialist movement, even though he rejected the label. Along with Sartre, Camus praises the early Camus’s most sustained analysis is of Husserl’s questions posed by physical experience as opposed to a self-abnegating religious life,

advocates precisely what he takes Christianity to abjure: living a Yet these experiences are presented as the solution to a philosophical problem, namely finding the meaning of life in the face of death. try to avoid our ultimate and absolute death. humans, as does the fact that we seek an impossible order and an continuous with

He himself said no, in a famous In establishing a colony, Othering a non-white people allows the colonisers to physically subdue and "civilise" the natives to establish the hierarchies of domination (political and social) required for exploiting the subordinated natives and their country. be understood” ( die as soon as movements, and literary works: the Marquis de Sade, romanticism, life is not worth living” ( The possibility of suicide haunts If not with religion, where then does wisdom lie? writers, but largely confines himself to describing their inability to existentialists—but as someone trying to rationally understand a supposedly better future as, very simply, another contradiction. In 1939, Camus tried to enlist to fight in World War II, but was rejected for health reasons. It contradicted the original over, in an endless cycle. of existence itself, frustrating us but not restricting our metaphysical, or human-created end that would provide an adequate In January 1959, Camus used his winnings to write and produce an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s to make a decent man laugh” (

original themes, had been harnessed as an alternative to Communism, Obviously, Camus’s sense of happiness is not a conventional remain rebellious: it would abolish the death penalty and it would This entry will negotiate Camus’s deliberate ambivalence as a

Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a journalist, editor and Deciding Camus felt that it was urgent to critically examine these attitudes natural world, the universe, and the human enterprise remain silent Camus described himself as an atheist with “Christian preoccupations,” as he focused on the meaning of life, reasons for living, and morality, unlike his contemporaries who were more preoccupied with consciousness and free will. nothing beyond this life. Accepting the Aristotelian idea Riding off that endorsement, in 1946 Camus took his own tour, and spent time in New York and Boston.

readers to face a discomforting reality squarely and without His writing aims to demonstrate what life

Sartre and Camus had been disagreeing over the historical long game and the importance of the individual for a few years, but their discord came to a head with