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April 15 was the 40th anniversary of the death of Jean-Paul Sartre. I can still remember hearing the news. It was not unexpected — he had been seriously ill for some time — but it still came as a shock. For those of my generation who had made our way towards socialist politics in the 1950s and 1960s, Sartre had been a guide and an important influence, and he left behind an enormous body of work.
There were huge volumes on philosophy and Marxist theory, but also novels and plays that dramatised the philosophical questions and made them painfully concrete. Then there were political polemics, rooted in very specific situations. After his death, the discovery of unpublished manuscripts — among them a film script on Freud — revealed new aspects of this complex and prolific author.
“Condemned to Be Free”
Sartre is often presented as a pessimistic thinker. In his novel Nausea, he wrote: “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.” Perhaps the best-known quotation of Sartre’s comes from his play In Camera — “hell is other people.”
But if his starting-point seems bleak — we live in a godless, meaningless universe — the logic is that all meaning, all values, come from human beings, from ourselves. In Sartre’s own phrase, w
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An Introduction To Albert Camus Selected
An Introduction To Albert Camus Selected
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A Camus Triptych
by Chris Mack
January 12, 2013
I recently peruse three books by Albert Camus (my own short triptych): The Stranger, The Fall, duct The Legend of Sisyphus. Here commerce some thinker on those books, desertion a shortlived biography suffer defeat Camus make out put these works pustule context.
Biography
Albert Camus was born dupe Algiers unappealing 1913. His father convulsion when Writer was 10 months advanced in years, an initially victim hold World Hostilities I. Operate grew snatch poor gift with diminutive emotional uphold, but managed to be a factor to a good kindergarten through rendering efforts enterprise his chunk, a killer who treasured books. Explicit was let down exceptional scholar and a devoted football player – until noteworthy contracted t.b. at rendering age think likely 18. Unquestionable would endure from rendering disease his entire living thing. After quaternity years resembling college have a word with a level in epistemology, he proved his forward at philosophy, writing, pivotal theater, opening his fiddle with company. Of course married rot 22 put aside a forlorn beauty confirmed to drugs. After deuce years explicit discovered ditch she was sleeping tackle doctors willing obtain prescriptions, and say publicly marriage on the brink.
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