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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
Having a hard time understanding why a book that starts with a question doesn't end with an answer.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Love it.
challenging
medium-paced
reflective
medium-paced
Camus has got his thing and he rocks his thing
challenging
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
I will never understand the people seeing this book/essay collection as a good introduction in beginner philosophy. I was told this back in 2022 ,and, having listened to the advice, it almost made me be disinterested in philosophy when I had just gotten started!
So it's not an introductory book to philosophy. In fact, the amount of references (of other existentialists and phenomenologists, namey Husserl), together with the amount of the assumptions and the language used (which is strikingly reminiscent of Nietzsche, reminds me of the power unique to continental philosophy) makes it a challenging but meaningful read.
I even suggest this not being someone's first read of Camus. I find that Sartre , in his commentary, was right that The Stranger perfectly -illustrates- the absurd and The Myth of Sisyphus presents it, as in a philosophical thesis.
That being said, it's timeless, and for good reason. It is a pertinent critique of some philosophical ideas and also a very acute observation of an omnipresent phenomena(?)(attitude, feeling, idea etc.) ..
So it's not an introductory book to philosophy. In fact, the amount of references (of other existentialists and phenomenologists, namey Husserl), together with the amount of the assumptions and the language used (which is strikingly reminiscent of Nietzsche, reminds me of the power unique to continental philosophy) makes it a challenging but meaningful read.
I even suggest this not being someone's first read of Camus. I find that Sartre , in his commentary, was right that The Stranger perfectly -illustrates- the absurd and The Myth of Sisyphus presents it, as in a philosophical thesis.
That being said, it's timeless, and for good reason. It is a pertinent critique of some philosophical ideas and also a very acute observation of an omnipresent phenomena(?)(attitude, feeling, idea etc.) ..
challenging
reflective
medium-paced