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Episode 102: Joshua Cherniss - Liberalism in Dark Times

The Political Theory Review

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Camus's Early Philosophy Absurdism

I didn't know if it seems that there's existentialist philosophy at least is kind of you know it eans to chasin human hubris right I mean in the sense that look I mean we're sort of an absurd feature of the cosmos. If you want to make yourself into this sort of megalomaniac like a political messiah who wants to transform the world then that's totally absurd and so Camus himself called his early philosophy absurdism. There is also this sense of both compassion and respect that this condition evokes as he says in his novel the plague.

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