Camus
Algerian-born French writer
Albert Camus was a twentieth-century French-Algerian writer and philosopher associated with existentialism and absurdism.
His novels *The Stranger* and *The Plague* and his essay *The Myth of Sisyphus* explore meaning, mortality, and revolt against life's absurdity.
He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
We're reading Camus in philosophy class.
Condemned eternal boulder roller
- meaninglessnessLack of significance
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- lucidityClearness of mind
suicide · confrontation · defiance · rebellion · acceptance · hopelessness · indifference · consciousness
Maghreb nation, largest African
- AlgiersCapital of largest African nation
- FrenchOf or from Paris's nation
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
- ResistanceOrganized anti-occupation movement
journalist · goalkeeper · Mediterranean · colonialism · poverty
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- moralityRight and wrong principles
freedom · responsibility · authenticity · choice · individualism · revolt · Nietzsche · Kierkegaard
Sisyphus
Condemned eternal boulder roller
- meaninglessnessLack of significance
- absurdityWildly illogical quality
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
lucidity · suicide · confrontation · defiance · rebellion · acceptance · hopelessness · indifference · consciousness · alienation
Algeria
Maghreb nation, largest African
- AlgiersCapital of largest African nation
- FrenchOf or from Paris's nation
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
Resistance · journalist · goalkeeper · Mediterranean · colonialism · poverty
existentialism
Philosophy stressing self-created meaning
- SartreFrench existentialist philosopher
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
morality · freedom · responsibility · authenticity · choice · individualism · revolt · Nietzsche · Kierkegaard · phenomenology
Caligula
Depraved third Roman emperor
prose · allegory · fiction · existentialist
- individual authors CAgatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, C.S. Lewis, Colleen Hoover
- European AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Jane Austen, Dante
- French WritersVictor Hugo, Hugo, Jules Verne, Verne, Voltaire
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
CamusThomas Aquinas
Scholastic philosopher-theologian
C.S. Lewis · Leibniz · Hegel · Kierkegaard
CamusSartre
French existentialist philosopher
Stalinists · Heidegger · fellow travelers · Marxist-Leninists · phenomenologists