Albert Camus
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Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus
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Camus starts from the question of suicide to think the absurd, born from the mismatch between the human desire for meaning and the silence of the world. He defends a lucid revolt that allows to live without false hope.
- Essay
- Philosophy
Camus: The Just Assassins
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In revolutionary Russia, a group is preparing an attack on a grand duke. The play confronts commitment, murder, innocence and moral limits of political action.
- Philosophy
Camus: The Rebel
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Camus studies the metaphysical and historical forms of revolt. He looks at how to refuse injustice without turning emancipation into terror or sacrificing the human being to an absolute idea.
- Philosophy
Camus: The Stranger
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Meursault goes through his mother's death, murder and trial with apparent indifference. Camus shows the absurd, social judgment and confrontation of a man with the truth of his condition.
- Philosophy
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