Defensive pessimism is a strategy that is used to deal with fear and is often part of a nihilistic worldview. Existentialism offers a better and more realistic alternative.

French director François Ozon takes on a new challenge with a film adaptation of Albert Camus’s The Stranger, or the Outsider ...

A writer since age 10, Gheed El Bizri ’25 published her first book, “Les Obsessions D'un Poète,” written in French, in May ...

Albert Camus is likely the most popular novelist who is also often regarded as consequential in the history of philosophy, ...

They made Albert Camus’ novels The Stranger (1942 ... Agnes Callard, the American philosopher, makes a persuasive plea to return philosophical thinking to the centre of our lives in Open ...

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Janet Glockler-Hooke told 880 CHED she was headed to a mall in St. Albert, Alta., on Saturday and when she turned into the parking lot, she noticed three men holding signs and flags that concerned ...

This is a bleak model for those in lamentation over our current moment. But Camus’ brand of pessimism is apt, simultaneously acknowledging that sense of being cosmically screwed while knowing that ...