The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus · 1942
Must we kill ourselves? Camus says no. The struggle itself is enough. The founding text of absurdist philosophy.
The case against
As philosophy it asserts more than it argues. Camus dispatches Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Jaspers in a few confident pages apiece, at a speed no graduate seminar would tolerate. The famous closing image is a slogan you already know; the chapters on Don Juan, the actor, and the conqueror read now as period posturing.
Essays · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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