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Albert Camus

1942

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If the clash between our demand for meaning and a silent world persists, can one live on without suicide or false hope?

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Story 1How should we face suffering and death?

Camus — Lucid revolt without dissolving the absurd

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If the clash between our demand for meaning and a silent world persists, can one live on without suicide or false hope?

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    Camus begins The Myth of Sisyphus with the question of suicide and describes the absurd as the confrontation between the human demand for meaning and an unanswering world.

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    • Albert Camus

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §3.1 The Absurd and Suicide

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    His response is to live with lucidity, revolt, freedom, and passion without dissolving the absurd in a transcendent answer; Camus rejected the label “existentialist.”

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    • Albert Camus

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §3.2 Limits of Reason; §3.3 Criticism of Existentialists; §3.4 Happiness in Facing One’s Fate

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  1. 1942

    Published in Paris, The Myth of Sisyphus proposes lucid persistence and revolt rather than suicide before the absurd.

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