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Albert Camus

1913 – 1960 · France · Literature, Philosophy

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1957

The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus; absurdism as an ethic.

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  • Epictetus

    50 – 135 · Philosophy

    Camus's absurd hero holds the Stoic posture — lucid consent to a world indifferent to us.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    1844 – 1900 · Philosophy, Literature

    Camus's revolt is written inside Nietzsche's problem of value after nihilism.

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1821 – 1881 · Literature, Philosophy

    Camus reads Ivan Karamazov as the founding text of metaphysical revolt.

  • Simone Weil

    1909 – 1943 · Philosophy, Theology

    Camus edited Weil's posthumous works and called her the era's only great spirit.

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