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Sisyphus and the meaning of live.(Philosophy & Ideas)
IS LIFE MEANINGFUL? IS it worth living? In his celebrated essay "The Myth of Sisyphus (originally written in French, 1942), Albert Camus describes suicide as the "one truly serious problem of philosophy, and sees the question of whether life is worth living as tantamount to that of whether we should end our own lives. He suggests that, when we contemplate the universe with "lucidity", we feel "an alien, a stranger". It is this "incalculable feeling" of "divorce" between us and the universe that he refers to as absurdity, and he associates it with the sense that there is no "profound reason for living".
"The Myth of Sisyphus" has attracted a vast body of ...
- Camus: Portrait of a Moralist.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Isaac, Jeffrey C. December 1, 1999 700+ words
Camus: Portrait of a Moralist. By Stephen Bronner...writings, and intellectual itinerary of Albert Camus, the Nobel Prize novelist, playwright...earlier book by Conor Cruise O'Brien, Albert Camus of Europe and Africa. As did O'Brien...
- Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Williams, James S. December 1, 1998 700+ words
...study explores the impact of Dostoevsky on Camus's intellectual development and argues that Camus pursued a counter-discourse with the Russian...texts served as both a catalyst and challenge. Camus, of course, was himself fully conscious of...
- Camus, A Stranger No More; Novelist's Last Draft Reveals Personal Life
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post William Drozdiak April 26, 1994 700+ words
...of Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus. For two hours on that drizzly January...novel is a secret no longer. Catherine Camus, a 48-year-old lawyer entrusted upon...densely handwritten text that had become Camus' private obsession in the final days of...
- Camus: Une Vie.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 27, 1996 700+ words
WHEN Albert Camus was killed in a car crash in January 1960...France that has never been recovered. Camus was mourned because young people loved...and as yet untried, even to have seen Camus in the street in Paris was something to...
- Camus' `First Man': a masterpiece in the making
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff October 30, 1995 700+ words
THE FIRST MAN By Albert Camus Knopf, 325 pp., $23 Albert Camus was killed in a car accident in 1960 when he was 47...turns back on itself, repeats itself. As he went along, Camus busily corrected the work, constantly writing notes about...
- Camus, frere de soleil.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Sellin, Eric September 22, 1996 700+ words
...this stoicism in Robles's portrayal of Camus, who never ceased to fight the debilitating...problems that plagued him since adolescence. Camus, frere de soleil is a moving account of...and literary affinities. Robles and Camus had almost identical upbringings, having...
- Albert Camus: A Life.(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Cross Currents Mathy, Jean-Philippe December 22, 1998 700+ words
...00 (cloth). Olivier Todd's Albert Camus: A Life is a biography for the 1990s...underscores what makes his own version of Camus' life original, and long overdue: he...doubt. According to Todd, the death of Camus' wife, Francine, in 1979, made those...
- Albert Camus, 20: 'Le Premier Homme' en perspective.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Orme, Mark July 1, 2005 700+ words
Albert Camus, 20: 'Le Premier Homme' en perspective...bear witness to the ongoing interest in Camus's unfinished recit d'enfance, Le Premier...the vein of Le Premier Homme accompanies Camus throughout his adulthood. Christy Lawrence...
Source: HighBeam Research, Sisyphus and the meaning of live.(Philosophy & Ideas)