Albert Camus - Wikipedia Albert Camus ( k æ ˈ m uː [2] ka-MOO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political activist
Albert Camus | Biography, Books, Philosophy, Death, Facts - Britannica Albert Camus (1913–60) was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright, best known for such novels as The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956) and for his work in leftist causes He also wrote the influential philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Camus, Albert - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Consequently, the Camus of the period 1937-38 is a decidedly different writer from the Camus who will ascend the dais at Stockholm nearly twenty years later The young Camus is more of a sensualist and pleasure-seeker, more of a dandy and aesthete, than the more hardened and austere figure who will endure the Occupation while serving in the
Albert Camus: Ideas, Quotes and Life - Philosophy Terms Albert Camus (caMOO) was a French author and essayist, as much a literary figure as a philosopher Though he never accepted the label himself, he was a major figure in 20 th-century existentialism, a literary-philosophical movement that accepts and even embraces the fundamental meaninglessness of life
About — Albert Camus Society Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French philosopher, author, playwright, journalist and political activist He is best known for his novels The Stranger (L'Étranger) , The Plague (La Peste) and The Fall (La Chute); and his philosophical essays The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe) and The Rebel (L'Homme révolté)
Albert Camus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Camus’s graduate thesis at the University of Algiers sympathetically explored the relationship between Greek philosophy and Christianity, specifically the relationship of Plotinus to Augustine (Camus 1992)
The Life and Work of Albert Camus - WorldAtlas Camus was an esteemed writer for his generation in Europe and worldwide His writing addressed fundamental concepts of existence From his idea of the Absurd to the problem of evil, the finality of death, and the alienation of the postwar intellectual, Camus made significant contributions to philosophy
Understanding Albert Camus; Novelist, Playwright and Philosopher November 7, 1913, is the birthdate of Albert Camus, one of the most important writers and philosophers of the 20th century Born in Algiers to an impoverished family, Camus rose from poverty with the help of a teacher to attend the University of Algiers
The Myth of Sisyphus - Wikipedia The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical work by Albert Camus Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd