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Learning from Bertrand Russell in Today’s Tumultuous World

By Vivian Marie Lewis — 2018

How can the ideas of a man who started teaching at the London School of Economics in 1896—and who corresponded with Jean-Paul Sartre, Ho Chi Minh, T.S. Eliot and so many others, and lived long enough to protest both the First World War and the Vietnam War—still be so meaningful?

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Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate

Writing “The Plague” in the form of a historical “chronicle” was a hopeful gesture, implying human continuity, a vessel to carry the memory of war as an inoculation against future armed conflicts.

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Laura Marris
2020
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The Rebel Hero: Albert Camus and the Search for Meaning Amidst the Absurd

In Camus’ humanism man must look within and without in order to feel relief from his suffering in seeing himself as part of the whole of mankind:

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Meghan E. Von Hassel
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Does Essence Precede Existence? A Look at Camus’s Metaphysical Rebellion

Albert Camus lived during a tumultuous time that included his experience of World War II and the Algerian War. Camus is most prominently known as an author of fine French literature but he was also a philosopher.

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Scot N. DuFour
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