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Albert Camus was a French author and philosopher who won the Nobel prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, although Camus refused this label; as he wrote in his essay The Rebel, his whole life was devoted against the philosophy of nihilism. His most important phrase for the future was: "All of us, among the ruins, are preparing a renaissance beyond the limits of nihilism. But few of us know it".
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I loved The Outsider in my teenage years; I should really read others by him.
He has been the biggest inspiration of my school days…
I still remember how Sartre and Camus broke up...
It was because of an article published in Sartre's review about L'homme revolté. Camus didn't like the criticism and sent a whining letter to "Les Temps Modernes' director". Les mouches' author answered defencing what has been written by Merleau-Ponty (as far as I know), and then both of them began fighting. Sadly, I'm not fluent in French, but this is what they told each other, more or less:
Dear Camus:
Our friendship was never easy, but I'm going to miss it... (Sartre very often made his pen a sharp knife, didn't he?)
Some time later, during an interview about this argument, Camus declared: What am I supposed to do? Kicking his ass? He's too tiny!
Ah, their fuckin' ego! Writers are like that...
What was the article about?
What is "Believing there is no meaning to be discovered", if Absurdism highlights that humans will fail trying to find it? I'm talking specifically to that definition (This may be a part of Nihilism, but that's not what I'm talking about).