| − | '''Albert Camus''' (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was an influential [[French]] [[philosopher]], author, and journalist who is chiefly known for his work on Absurdism. 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. But Camus was strongly anti-communist.<ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/#AgaCom</ref> | + | '''Albert Camus''' (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was an influential [[French]] [[philosopher]], author, and journalist who is chiefly known for his work on Absurdism. He specifically rejected the label “[[existentialist]].” 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. But Camus was strongly anti-communist.<ref>https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/camus/#AgaCom</ref> |