Watching atm Robert Solomon on Albert Camus
Robert is one of the Nietzsche scholars, but in this course it's about Existentialism as a whole, his delivery has a gravitas, it's like he's just had an exhausting argument with his wife, and he's just got to do this lecture before his hellish life continues.
Well Camus, I love this thinker and author, I have all his stuff, except the posthumous stuff, which I can easily get, and it's being confirmed in my mind that spending more time reading those books will be enormously illuminating and instructive for me.
I've always placed a higher value on his 2 non-fiction works The Myth of .... I can't spell the word right, but it's about suicide, and The Rebel, the latter being most prized for showing captivating pictures of such baddies as Marquis de Sade.
His fiction ergo, would be where i'd spend some time first with, his iconic Stranger, which is what Robert is discussing, and The Plague, and The Fall.
His Letters and any other correspondence would be highly interesting too.
He lived in Algiers, and didn't have an optimal life, for a time was friends with Sartre, who I would like also to read fiction by, and Saint Genet.
Camus was a gifted writer, he was almost like Proust in how he could unravel paragraphs of exquisite thought, but with a staggering sense of humanity, he cared deeply about the human predicament, and I think it would be like drinking deeply from a well of so called living water from such a man, who had such a mind, for this species of the homosapien.
The world is in trouble, we feel it all around, we need to listen to people like Camus to respond to life and the world more intelligently.
Well Camus, I love this thinker and author, I have all his stuff, except the posthumous stuff, which I can easily get, and it's being confirmed in my mind that spending more time reading those books will be enormously illuminating and instructive for me.
I've always placed a higher value on his 2 non-fiction works The Myth of .... I can't spell the word right, but it's about suicide, and The Rebel, the latter being most prized for showing captivating pictures of such baddies as Marquis de Sade.
His fiction ergo, would be where i'd spend some time first with, his iconic Stranger, which is what Robert is discussing, and The Plague, and The Fall.
His Letters and any other correspondence would be highly interesting too.
He lived in Algiers, and didn't have an optimal life, for a time was friends with Sartre, who I would like also to read fiction by, and Saint Genet.
Camus was a gifted writer, he was almost like Proust in how he could unravel paragraphs of exquisite thought, but with a staggering sense of humanity, he cared deeply about the human predicament, and I think it would be like drinking deeply from a well of so called living water from such a man, who had such a mind, for this species of the homosapien.
The world is in trouble, we feel it all around, we need to listen to people like Camus to respond to life and the world more intelligently.
46-50, M