Essays on Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French philosopher/writer who was born in Algeria (part of North Africa that was owned by the French) in 1913. He wrote this book showing how life is “absurd” because death is final, therefore making life meaningless. This is a very basic look at the philosophy and you shouldn’t assume that what…

How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? When I first read ‘the outsider’, by Albert Camus, I was colossally impressed by the protagonist’s outlook towards life but at the same time the happenings in the work perplexed me because of a different time and place…

The Outsider by Albert Camus and Michael Foucault’s Madness and Civilization: Humanism versus Anti-humanism Introduction Although Michael Foucault is highly respected as a philosopher, Camus is routinely eliminated from prominent discussions of last century’s philosophical developments. In William Barrett’s Irrational Man, for example, Camus is mentioned only once, in passing, on page eight; and in…

Reaction to Jean-Baptiste Clamence in Albert Camus’s “The Fall”             “The Fall” is a novel written by Albert Camus about a lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, who previously belonged to the elite class of society and worked as one of the best in his field. Among the distinct aspects of the story is the shaping of Clamence…

Philosophy 101 Robert Longo’s (Untitled) Adam is a portrait of Albert Camus’s idea of Sisyphus as the absurd hero. American neo-expressionist Robert Longo’s series Yingxiong (Heroes) is a collection of large-scale charcoal drawings of fighter pilot masks and Untitled (Adam), a fighter pilot named after the first man, is one of the best of the…