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'''Albert Camus''' (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was an influential [[French]] philosopher, author, and journalist who is chiefly known for his work on [[existentialism]]. Some of his most famous works include ''The Stranger, The Plague, The Rebel,'' and ''The Myth of Sisyphus''. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

'''Albert Camus''' (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was an influential [[French]] philosopher, author, and journalist who is chiefly known for his work on [[existentialism]]. Some of his most famous works include ''The Stranger, The Plague, The Rebel,'' and ''The Myth of Sisyphus''. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. In Camus' [[atheistic]] view, human beings lack any purpose, and merely exist in a cold and hostile universe.

 

Although he was often labeled an existentialist, Camus claimed that he was not, and asserted that he was a member of no specific ideology or school of thought. His philosophical contributions mostly concern what he called "The Absurd," which encompasses the supposed meaninglessness and insignificance of human life in the universe. In Camus' [[atheistic]] view, human beings lack any purpose, and merely exist in a cold and hostile universe.