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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905±1980), Albert Camus (1913±1960) and Existentialism Albert Camus would probably turn, once again, in his grave at the allegation that he was an existentialist. But his disquiet is better understood through the uneasiness of his personal relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, who is more obviously associated with the term, than any genuine incommensurability between their beliefs. It is probably the word absurdity that is responsible for the persistence with which commentators have linked Camus and existentialism, and the subsequent connection, for which we might hold Martin Esslin at least partly responsible, between absurdity and the ideas about being and freedom to which Sartre devoted so much intellectual energy. But the idea of absurdity, of which Camus was so fond, was not plucked from the air. Whatever new inflections Camus might have added to it, the notion of the absurd was integral to the philosophical tradition that most informed the work of Camus and Sartre, and can be found, if not always by name, in the work of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl and Jaspers. Camus may have refused the label existentialist, but it is difficult to see his thoug

Author

Mark Currie

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN