Twilight for vanity Nov 19, 2009
Picking up where Heidegger left off on the subject of death anxiety, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus identified the fear and trembling found in that prelude to death, personal degeneration - like, say, crow s feet. Sartre, a mind-body dualist, spoke of the nausea that comes when a mind helplessly watches its body decay, causing consciousness to inevitably become estranged from its body. (Boston Globe)
A Place So Beautifully Sad, It Makes Me Want To Paint Nov 17, 2009
In Simon Mawer's new novel, , set in Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, one character asks, "Why are Czechs always so mournful?" Another answers, "They have a great deal to be mournful about." In the invaluable , scholar Richard Burton quotes Albert Camus, who, after a week in Prague, came away saying he was, "emptier and in deeper despair after this disappointing encounter with myself." (It should be noted that if Camus had found himself on a Carnival cruise, it's likely all the fun... (Slate)
What Are Intellectuals Good For? Nov 17, 2009
He singles out for high praise Randolph Bourne, Dwight Macdonald, George Orwell, and Irving Howe among the English speakers, Albert Camus, Nicola Chiaromonte, and Ignazio Silone among the Europeans. They all brought wide learning, moral subtlety, and a refined literary style to their work. (The American Conservative)
Top Article: Astonishing Anthropologist Nov 9, 2009
For, unlike other thinkers who dominated the French intellectual scene after the WW II - Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Raymond Aron among others - he was seldom embroiled in the political and ideological debates of the day. Add to this the limited appeal of his books. (India Times, India)
Africa: Continent's Elite and the Western Media Nov 4, 2009
Albert Camus tells us to imagine Sisyphus happy. In certain contexts, I can do so. (allAfrica.com)
Obama: A Man Apart Oct 28, 2009
Albert Camus was expert at describing a man apart, an existential man The Stranger, who didn t belong in the society in which he found himself. He didn t have emotional roots; in fact, this character was haunted by shadows -- the real and the metaphorical. (Human Events Online)
The clash of uncivilisations Oct 23, 2009
Albert Camus wrote in La Peste that the plague bacillus "roused up the rats...and sent them to die in a happy city". There's no vaccine for this plague. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Andrea K. Scott: Michael Smith, at the SculptureCenter. Oct 19, 2009
He s Swee Pea as scripted by Albert Camus, an infantile avatar of alienation. In 2008, Smith teamed up with the Los Angeles art star Mike Kelley (a master of abject grotesquerie) to set Baby loose in the Nevada desert, amid the dreadlocked trustafarians and body-painting ravers who descend every summer for Burning Man. (New Yorker)
Better Smellers are More Sympathetic, Study Says Oct 13, 2009
Authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus have produced works that tie rich scent references to emotions. These literary works inspired study co-author Denise Chen, a sociochemist at Rice University in Texas, to wonder if there was a link between smell and emotions. (National Geographic)
What should be done with health care? Aug 17, 2009
- Albert Camus (1913-1960) Allen D Aug 14, 2009 10:21 AM To Kitty "Catty". Mabey I get a little ticked off at Liberal BS and ignorance and so I type too fast. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
Locked up inside the mind of a killer Aug 9, 2009
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An insightful, if worshipful, look at Albert Camus Jul 19, 2009
In the pantheon of photogenic writers with auras, Albert Camus shares the dais with Ernest Hemingway and Samuel Beckett, no question. Camus, with his trench coat, Gauloises, and Bogart mien. (Boston Globe)
When will the markets and economies recover? Jul 16, 2009
IN Albert Camus celebrated book, The Plague, we read of an insidious outbreak of disease accompanied by a rat infestation in the French town of Oran. At least, thats what we appear to be reading, but the story is actually an allegorical reference to the inexorable Nazi occupation of France. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
interview with Michael Moorcock Jun 19, 2009
"? Pretty much now. There might be a little bit of tweaking in future, but nothing special. In fact I've done the reverse with the current Del Rey Elric books where I've republished them in their original order. At least where fantasy books are concerned. But I suspect if I ever had the time I'd do some revision on the Pyat books and maybe a little on Mother London. Which artist has best depicted your idea of Elric? I'm partial to Micheal Whelan. I love Whelan's stuff but his Elric's just a... (Harper's Magazine)
Hard work pays off for top students Jun 6, 2009
He said he enjoyed the books he read and analyzed in class, especially The Stranger by Albert Camus. It was really powerful and so different with how it was set up, Ede said. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Washington diary Jun 4, 2009
He also said he was getting stuck into the works of Albert Camus. They did not budge on Amazon - perhaps because no one could imagine Mr Bush cosying up to anything French, even in translation. (BBC News -- Americas)
Bowing to a higher authority May 30, 2009
The French writer Albert Camus added a valuable nuance when he said that democracy was the form of society devised and maintained by those who know they don't know everything. One way or another those two descriptions are at the heart of the case for favouring a mechanism by which no group can consolidate itself in power or any individual rule alone unchallenged. (BBC News -- UK)
Summer Quotes May 12, 2009
Inspirational Quotations about the Summer. Summer stirs up a mix of memories and emotions. (Suite101.com)
Howard the Duck Isn't as Bad as You Remember. It's Worse. Apr 8, 2009
Gerber counted existentialist icon Albert Camus among his heroes, and the comic's tagline"Trapped in a world he never made!"doubles as a sendup of Marvel's hyperbolic prose and a statement of philosophical purpose. Howard was first drawn by Val Mayerick, then Frank Brunner and John Buscema. (Slate)
A New WMD - `Weapon of Massive Distraction' - in Asia Feb 10, 2009
The French philosopher Albert Camus admitted: "What I know about the value and the morality of humanity is because of football". However, let us keep lucid. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
