One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment. But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously acknowledging that sense of being ...

These lines from The Outsider', she continued to a collective sigh of relief, 'demonstrate Albert ... I turned to Camus's greatest philosophical work. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus contemplates ...

Albert Camus is likely the most popular novelist who is also often regarded as consequential in the history of philosophy, ...

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. "One must imagine ...

But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt ... I think of the men whom Chris Heath wrote about in his recent book, No Road Leading Back. These were Jews and Russian prisoners of war who were forced ...