Albert Camus rejected the term “existentialist” when used to describe him, since he often thought existentialists contradicted themselves. Aronson also notes one of Camus’ greatest works, The Myth of Sisyphus, was actually written against existentialists, namely Shestov, Kierkegaard, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Camus was different from these philosophers, although he did agree life was absurd in the grand scheme of things, but he resists utter hopelessness; instead, we should endure and embrace that our lives are
Albert Camus rejected the term “existentialist” when used to describe him, since he often thought existentialists contradicted themselves. Aronson also notes one of Camus’ greatest works, The Myth of Sisyphus, was actually written against existentialists, namely Shestov, Kierkegaard, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Camus was different from these philosophers, although he did agree life was absurd in the grand scheme of things, but he resists utter hopelessness; instead, we should endure and embrace that our lives are