Kierkegaard and Camus each pointed to some fundamental conditions of our existence. Life is about creating meaning. When one lives passionately, one can die without rebellion.

This treatment of the myth is Camus’s rough draft of a doctrine of metaphysical revolt, rooted in the spirit of the average man who, always and everywhere, has braced himself against his fate ...

Camus’s answer is “No, it requires revolt”. Camus’s Absurdism doesn’t mean practical or logical impossibility of something but something that is humanely impossible.

“Even my death will be contested. And yet what I desire most today is a quiet death, which would bring peace to those whom I love.” Albert Camus’s prediction has been borne out—but not his ...

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Revolt,” declared Albert Camus in 1951 in The Rebel, “ protests, it demands, it insists that the outrage be brought to an end, and that what has up to now been built upon shifting sands should ...

Camus joined the second group at the end of 1942 and stayed with it until 1947. ... The Hungarian revolt was going on, and intellectuals in Budapest sent messages to Camus beseeching him for help.

Kierkegaard and Camus each pointed to some fundamental conditions of our existence. Life is about creating meaning. When one lives passionately, one can die without rebellion.