#140 - Albert Camus: Robert C. Solomon on the Absurd Hero, The Stranger, The Plague, Existentialism in Literature, and the Benign Indifference of the Universe

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“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.” 

-Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947

(00:00:00) - Intro & Host Promo

(00:00:40) - The Stranger, Part 1

(00:30:36) - The Stranger, Part 2

(01:00:33) - The Myth of Sisyphus

(01:29:22) - The Plague & The Fall

(01:58:45) - The Fall, Part 2

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Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Solomon