Sisyphus’ punishment for speaking out is to effort the stone up the mountain. In Camus’ interpretation, Sisyphus is well aware of his situation, of what led up to it as well as what his future will be ...

However, the 20th-century philosopher and writer Albert Camus took a closer look at the famous Greek legend while exploring his philosophy of the absurd, concluding in The Myth of Sisyphus that ...

In the Greek story of Sisyphus, the king was condemned for eternity to move a massive rock up a hill but never reach the summit. Albert Camus famously saw it as a parable of the human condition ...

In his 1942 book The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus singles out Sisyphus as an icon of the absurd, noting that “his scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that ...

I first met Albert Camus in the fall of 1980, when I was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. I say met because it felt that personal to me. His 1942 provocation “The Myth of Sisyphus ...

In a compelling essay, the French existentialist Albert Camus argued that Sisyphus' defiant embrace of his fate transformed his labors into a source of meaning — and even joy.

The prolific author remembers a quote from Albert Camus about the Greek myth of King Sisyphus when she gets discouraged.

The French existentialist philosopher Albert Camus discusses this story approvingly in his famous book The Myth of Sisyphus. Camus takes our lives to be similar, in essence, to Sisyphus's; he ...

The Myth of Sisyphus posits that the most logical response to the certain knowledge that one will die and fade into oblivion is suicide, but that “the absurd man”—Camus’ hero, embodied by ...