The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus: The Rise of Absurdity to an Intellectual Concept as an Emotional Experiment

EREN G.

BEYTULHIKME-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, cilt.7, sa.2, ss.145-162, 2017 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 7 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Dergi Adı: BEYTULHIKME-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.145-162
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Albert Camus' novel Stranger and his essay named The Myth of Sisyphus are accepted as one of the most important works of the history of philosophy in terms of showing the absurd of the world to the people. Both texts starting from the concept of absurdity problematize the subjects such as the meaningless of life, the absurdity of our existence, a full indifference to the World and the magic of nihilism on modern man. The aim of the study is to investigate how the absurdity, which was an emotional experiment in the first phase, rose to a purely intellectual concept with a variety of moments forming the man's life.