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A Life Worth Living - Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning (Paperback)
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A Life Worth Living - Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning (Paperback)
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In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a
writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows
and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions help
explain something of Camus' remarkable character, which is the
overarching subject of this sympathetic and lively book. Through an
exploration of themes that preoccupied Camus--absurdity, silence,
revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a
moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to
our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to
challenge the status quo. Though we do not face the same dangers
that threatened Europe when Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus and
The Stranger, we confront other alarms. Herein lies Camus' abiding
significance. Reading his work, we become more thoughtful observers
of our own lives. For Camus, rebellion is an eternal human
condition, a timeless struggle against injustice that makes life
worth living. But rebellion is also bounded by self-imposed
constraints--it is a noble if impossible ideal. Such a
contradiction suggests that if there is no reason for hope, there
is also no occasion for despair--a sentiment perhaps better suited
for the ancient tragedians than modern political theorists but one
whose wisdom abides. Yet we must not venerate suffering, Camus
cautions: the world's beauty demands our attention no less than
life's train of injustices. That recognition permits him to
declare: "It was the middle of winter, I finally realized that,
within me, summer was inextinguishable."
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