#Absurdity

Moving Toward Fear with Absurd Courage

Camus’s line begins with a typically absurdist premise: fear is not merely an obstacle to be eliminated but a strange, unavoidable feature of being alive. To “embrace the absurdity” is to recognize that we can crave safe...

Planting Truth in the Soil of Everyday Life

Camus names the absurd as the clash between our hunger for meaning and a world that answers with silence, a theme he develops in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). Rather than despair, the line invites cultivation: planting tr...

Steadfast Acts Amid the Absurd: Camus's Counsel

At the outset, Camus invites us to recognize the absurd: the clash between our hunger for meaning and the world’s indifferent silence. As The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) shows, this recognition is not a cue for despair but a...