• The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard...
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    essay entitled The Myth of Sisyphus, in which he elevates Sisyphus to the status of absurd hero. Franz Kafka repeatedly referred to Sisyphus as a bachelor;...
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  • Sisyphus: The Myth (Korean: 시지프스: the myth) is a 2021 South Korean television series starring Cho Seung-woo and Park Shin-hye. Labeled as "JTBC's 10th...
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  • "The Myth of Sisyphus" is the third episode of the second season of the FX anthology series Fargo, and the thirteenth episode of the series overall. It...
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    meaningful. In The Myth of Sisyphus, despite his absurd destiny, Sisyphus finds a form of liberation in his incessant work: “one must imagine Sisyphus happy”...
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  • Look up Sisyphus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sisyphus was the king of Corinth, punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up...
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    Sisyphus to demonstrate the futility of existence. In the myth, Sisyphus is condemned for eternity to roll a rock up a hill, but when he reaches the summit...
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  • The Labors of Sisyphus may refer to The Greek myth of Sisyphus The 1897 novel by Stefan Żeromski Syzyfowe prace. This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • that Sisyphus symbolizes the vain struggle of man in the pursuit of knowledge. The Myth of Sisyphus saw Sisyphus as personifying the absurdity of human...
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    include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel. Camus was born in Algeria during the French colonization, to pied-noir...
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  • of Philosophy. Retrieved 16 November 2020. Cox, Gary (2008). The Sartre Dictionary. Continuum. pp. 41–42. Catalano p. 81. Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus...
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    Absurdist fiction (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)
    the term in his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus. The ideology of the Theatre of the Absurd is drawn from existentialism and expresses the result of human...
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    Don Juan (category Literary characters introduced in the 1610s)
    Camus referred to Don Juan in his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus. Camus describes Don Juan as an example of an "absurd hero", as he maintains a reckless...
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    the novel The Stranger (1942) and the essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). A number of critics have reported the piece to be existentialist, though Camus always...
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    (2007) The Racing Rats by English rock band Editors (2007) Abilene paradox Crab bucket Sisyphus, a Greek mythological figure The Myth of Sisyphus, an essay...
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    and the development of nihilism. It can be seen as a sequel to The Myth of Sisyphus, where he ponders the meaning of life, because it answers the same...
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  • Amor fati (category Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche)
    experientially apt." The French philosopher Albert Camus, in his 1942 essay on "The Myth of Sisyphus", explores ideas similar to those of Nietzsche. According...
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    P000426. Titian: Sisyphus (1549) Franz Stuck: Sisyphus (1920) List of works by Titian The Myth of Sisyphus According to the Prado the Tantalus was by Coxcie...
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    ways of resolving the dilemma. Kierkegaard and Camus describe the solutions in their works, The Sickness Unto Death (1849) and The Myth of Sisyphus (1942):...
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  • Sisyphus is a 1974 Hungarian animated short film directed by Marcell Jankovics. It is based on the myth of Sisyphus and shows a man who tries to move...
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  • Stages of the Erotic, or Musical Erotic." Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, "The Absurd Man: Don Juanism" D. Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (1996)...
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    also cast as the mentally disturbed former Marine "Ray Brennan" in TNT's adaptation of April Smith's thriller novel Good Morning, Killer. The film aired...
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    his 1942 essay "Myth of Sisyphus", describes the human situation as meaningless and absurd. The absurd in these plays takes the form of man's reaction...
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  • rallying cries of the 1960s student/youth protest movement was the slogan, "Don't trust anyone over thirty". In The Myth of Sisyphus the French existentialist...
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  • the film holds a score of 61 out of 100, based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus' essay) Self-deception...
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  • playwright Albert Camus (1913–1960) began his philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus with the famous line "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...
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  • him. The day before his release, Chad cuts himself while reading The Myth of Sisyphus. When discovered, he attacks one of the guards and cuts the guard's...
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    Camus uses the term in his 1942 essay, "The Myth of Sisyphus". The Absurd in these plays takes the form of man's reaction to a world apparently without...
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    include The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel. Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970): German philosopher who was active in central Europe before 1935 and in the United...
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  • of his allies and family. Jesse Mitchell, in Mythlore, compares Túrin both to the Byronic hero and to the absurd hero of Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus...
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