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Albert Camus · 1942
A philosophical essay exploring the absurd and the problem of suicide, arguing that life remains worth living even within nihilism. Camus presents a lucid meditation on meaning, existence, and the artist's role, accompanied by lyrical essays on themes of creation and living.
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What this book knows
The absurd confronts human longing for meaning against a silent universe—and demands we live without appeal, without hope, without evasion.
faith-and-doubt
My appetite for the absolute and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational principle—I cannot reconcile them.
MSOE-RC-032Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. If in order to elude the anxious question one must hope, then the absurd man turns away.
MSOE-RC-026Within the limits of the human condition, what greater hope than the hope that allows an escape from that condition?
MSOE-RC-081mortality
With God dead, there remains only history and power. Modern philosophy places its values at the end of action—reason has, as a result, become deadly.
MSOE-RC-109Kirilov fancies Jesus at his death did not find himself in Paradise—he found out then that his torture had been useless.
MSOE-RC-065self-and-identity
He knows that the end of the mind is failure. He tarries over spiritual adventures and pitilessly discloses the flaw in each system.
MSOE-RC-016Illuminates
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