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

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Defensive pessimism is a strategy that is used to deal with fear and is often part of a nihilistic worldview. Existentialism offers a better and more realistic alternative.

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Wood and Daniel Noah — partners in their production company, Spectrevision, which has produced several films including “Mandy” and “The Boy” — interviewed Song for their podcast, Visitations, on stage ...

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This anxious century has not given people much to feel optimistic about—yet most of us resist pessimism. Things must improve. They will get better. They have to. But when it comes to the big ...

Dr. Moustafa Fahmi’s Psychological Engineering in European Theatre, which explores the "theatre of the absurd," was published ...