Published 2022-01-30
Keywords
- Nihilism,
- Absurdism,
- Philosophies
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Abstract
Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957. He was born in Algeria, colony of France in 1913. His major contribution for philosophy is his views on the ‘absurd’. It means not at all logical or sensible. It is a nihilistic outlook on life which he explored in his novels, plays and essays. What is the meaning of life? For this profound question, three philosophies (Nihilism, Existentialism, Absurdism) have tackled in three ways. Although these three philosophical thoughts are united in that life has no meaning, there are some differences between them. This article explores that distinction. Mainly this article focuses the philosophy of Absurdism and the absurdist protagonist Meursault (In Albert Camus’s The Stranger’) who expresses that thought.
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- Camus, A., Sriram, V. (1980) Anniyan, Crea Publication, Chennai, India.
- Camus, A. (2013) The myth of Sisyphus, Penguin, UK.
- Camus, A. (1990) The myth of Sisyphus, Penguin, London.