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Camus

  • The Drama of Existentialism – NYTimes.com

    I am always impressed by the frisson in my class when students realize that there’s a sense in which Sartre is right: they could, right now, get up, leave the classroom, drop out of school, and go live as beach… Continue reading

  • Sartre and Camus in New York – NYTimes.com

    At Vassar he [Camus] gave a lecture on “The Crisis of Mankind” and was dazzled by the spectacle of “an army of long-legged young starlets, lazing on the lawn.” But he was preoccupied by what he thought of as the… Continue reading

  • The sun god

    So I preface this note with the following idea: an ethic based on empirical fact or facts, despite the contingency of the a posteriori, will be more concrete, literally and figuratively, than an ethic based on the a priori or… Continue reading