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Article: How can we live in the world of the absurd? The humanism of Albert Camus.
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Art, in a sense, is a revolt against everything fleeting and unfinished in the world.
--Albert Camus (1913-1960)
The restless questions of Albert Camus, one of the most discussed and most easily misunderstood writers of our time, continue to gnaw at us. From the first, his writings appear as a succession of explosions--the explosions of a human mind in anxiety and revolt before a world that does not hear, a universe that is indifferent to our demands. Camus expressed both the horror of living during Hitler's rise and World War II and the desire to establish a meaningful life in a meaningless world of war and futile conquest. Not content with the nihilism of ...