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Article: Sagi, Avi. Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- June 1, 2004
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SAGI, Avi. Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd. Translated by Balya Stein. Value Inquiry Book Series, Vol. 125. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. iii + 193 pp. Cloth, $37.00--"[E]ven if we cannot characterize the whole of Camus's aeuvre by one overall assessment, the leit-motiff of his entire work is still his contest with the question: How should we live in this world? What is a worthy human existence?" (p.29).
Professor Avi Sagi presents here the English version of his original Hebrew. He has been teaching for many years courses on Albert Camus (1913-60) at Bar-IIan University in Jerusalem. "In Israeli society," he states in the introduction, "which has long ...