Albert Camus's 1942 philosophical essay arguing that the fundamental question of philosophy is whether life is worth living in the face of absurdity (the conflict between humans' need for meaning and the universe's silence) — concluding that one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Founds the philosophy of absurdism — Camus's argument that the proper response to absurdity is neither suicide (giving in) nor faith (philosophical suicide) but revolt (living fully in defiance of meaninglessness) creates an existential stance distinct from both Sartre's existentialism and nihilism.
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