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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

Philosophy
Publish date
1955
Publisher
Hamilton
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.
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  1. Demons

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Camus analyzes Kirillov's suicide as the ultimate logical experiment in human freedom and absurdity.

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  2. The Gay Science

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Influences Camus's rejection of metaphysical comfort and embrace of lucid, tragic awareness.

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  3. Fear and Trembling

    Søren Kierkegaard

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    Camus critiques Kierkegaard's religious leap of faith as philosophical suicide.

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  4. The Trial

    Franz Kafka

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    Examined in the appendix as a definitive literary depiction of the absurd condition.

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  5. The Castle

    Franz Kafka

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    Analyzed to demonstrate how Kafka's protagonist grapples with a lucid yet elusive reality.

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  6. The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Camus cites Ivan Karamazov's rebellion against an unjust universe as an absurd stance.

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  7. The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka

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    Discussed as an exemplary representation of lucidity encountering the fundamentally irrational.

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  8. Philosophy of Existence

    Karl Jaspers

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    Critiqued for turning the failure of human reason into an encounter with transcendence.

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  9. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Provides conceptual support for living intensely without appeal to external meaning.

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  10. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology

    Edmund Husserl

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    Critiqued by Camus for ultimately deifying reason despite starting from empirical lucid description.

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  11. The Sickness unto Death

    Søren Kierkegaard

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    Cited regarding the nature of existential despair and the evasion of lucid confrontation.

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  12. Critique of Pure Reason

    Immanuel Kant

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    Referenced to illustrate the historical philosophical boundaries placed upon human comprehension.

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