Albert Camus - Wikipedia Albert Camus ( kæˈmuː kam-OO; [2] French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political activist
Albert Camus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Camus’s philosophy found political expression in The Rebel, which along with his newspaper editorials, political essays, plays, and fiction earned him a reputation as a great moralist
Albert Camus on suicide, absurdity, and the meaning of life Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice
Camus, Albert | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy He was the second child of Lucien Auguste Camus, a military veteran and wine-shipping clerk, and of Catherine Helene (Sintes) Camus, a house-keeper and part-time factory worker
Albert Camus: Biography, Author, Writer, Nobel Prize Albert Camus was a French Algerian writer best known for his absurdist works, including 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague ' He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957
Albert Camus – Biographical - NobelPrize. org Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work
Camus and the Psychology of Meaning For Camus, achieving happiness was challenging precisely because the world is meaningless He maintained that we must actively construct both meaning and happiness as a defense against despair