Perspective voyage · 1942

Camus — Lucid revolt without dissolving the absurd

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

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Camus — Lucid revolt without dissolving the absurd

How should we face suffering and death?

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

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