CAMUS 1913-1960 ?NOT EXISTENTIALIST
EMBRACES ABSURDITY, REJECTS NIHILISM
ANARCHISM, PACIFISM, ANTI-COLONIALISM (ALGERIA)
OXYMORONIC MEANING OF THE MEANINGLESS (DEATH)
ETHIC OF “AUTHENTICITY” [KIERKEGAARD + NIETZSCHE]
AESTHETE -> CONTRA CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
THE PLAGUE 1947 HEROIC COMMITTMENT
THE REBEL 1951
SOURCE OF HUMAN SOLIDARITY = METAPHYSICAL
ADOLESCENT REJECTION OF AUTHORITY PROMETHEUS
REJECTS SARTRE + STALIN
HEROIC DEFIANCE OF “OPPRESSION” BY VIOLENCE
THE STRANGER 1942 “MOTHER DIED TODAY. DR MAYBE YESTERDAY. I CANT BE SURE.”
MERSAULT MURDERS AN ARAB FOR NO REASON -> CONDEMNED
MYTH OF SISYPHUS 1943
HAPPINESS IN FUTILITY
QUESTION OF SUICIDE
CALIGULA -> AUTHENTIC, ANTI-HERO GETS LAST WORD
INSANITY, EVIL, CRUELTY DEATH/LIFE BOTH ABSURD
ARRANGES HIS OWN ASSASINATION
MARTYR TO ABSURDITY = “ABSOLUTE LIBERTY”
INCEST W/3 SISTERS, EXECUTED ON A WHIM, SADIST, STATUE OF HIMSELF IN TEMPLY OF JERUSALEM, MEGLOMANIA
PROSTITUTED SISTERS, TURNED PALACE INTO BROTHEL
AT GAMES W/O PRISONERS ORDERED GUARD TO THROW ENTIRE SECTION OF AUDIENCE TO LIONS
MAKES HIS HORSE PRIEST + CONSUL (PHILO/SENECA)