Sonya: I think Camus said, “The only real philosophical question is suicide.” You either accept the absurdity of life, or you opt-out. I feel like we all have moments when we’re fighting ...

The first of these, inevitably, is “absurdity.” If there is one philosophical concept associated with Camus, it is the idea that life is absurd, that is, ultimately meaningless.

After the war, Camus’s philosophical work became even more political. He published his book-length essay The Rebel in 1951, which precipitated his public fallout with Sartre.

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