Camus, Sisyphus and Jewish Destiny By ELI KAVON NOVEMBER 29, 2015 14:33 Nobel-Prize winning French thinker and writer Albert Camus opens his classic work The Myth of Sisyphus with these words: ...

Albert Camus’ The Myth Of Sisyphus And The Philosophy Of The Absurd Albert Camus was highly influenced by the work of other philosophers, especially Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and ...

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 ...

Why Camus's claim is wrong. Here is why I think that—at least as regards the lives of many people—Camus's claim is wrong. Achievement: Sisyphus's efforts are futile; he never succeeds in what ...

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy," wrote Albert Camus in 1942. Well, I do try. But the page is blank. I sit at my desk seized by sudden doubt, conscious of decades of pointless toil behind me and ...

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.

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 ...

Camus uses the Greek legend of Sisyphus, who is condemned by the gods for eternity to repeatedly roll a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down again once he got it to the top, ...