We left Albert Camus as he was dispensing of all the leap-takers — the philosophers who, instead of bearing the weight of existence on their own, found some shortcut to assist them (I’m referring to the previous post, if you missed it). The most frequent of Camus’s targets here was Kierkegaard, who was reportedly a [...]
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The Only Truly Serious Philosophical Problem
“Even if one does not believe in God, suicide is not legitimate.” Albert Camus clearly felt no need for an element of surprise in The Myth of Sisyphus, his long essay that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. This statement appears in the first paragraph of the Preface, before the book even officially [...]
Existential Dilemmas
I don’t like to use heavy labels or ideologies to express myself or to describe what I’ve been reading, but sometimes it’s inevitable. Since I saw the film I Heart Huckabees in 2004, I haven’t been able to escape the word “existentialism.” It popped up again in 2006 when I read The Stranger by Camus, [...]
