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Camus

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Absurd and the Mythecisus

It is rather an extraordinary novel, in fact, to come out in the middle of the war. It did strike a nerve in occupied france in 19 forty two. And also brought into play, perhaps it had been earlier, acresine, which caught the imagination of a great number of people. For chamu, the absurd arises from a clash between our human and natural desire for meaning and the fact that meaning is not pre inscribed in the world around us.

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