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Friday
Feb042011

Albert Camus Was A Writer For The French Resistance

Yesterday I learned that Albert Camus, author of The Stranger and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was a writer for the French Resistance magazine titled: Combat.

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Did you also know that Camus supported the idea that a feeling of nausea experienced when contemplating either a tree trunk or a stone was an epistemologically privileged experience in that it revealed the essential alterity - the inhumanity - of the stuff of the universe?

Have you ever felt nauseous when looking at a tree trunk or a stone? A fair number of people say they agree with Camus' position regarding the absurdity of life, but I want to find someone who has actually felt nauseous when looking at a stone or a tree. Is there anyone?

January 11, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterTorn Halves

I have felt nauseous looking at a tree trunk. and a rock. also a sewing machine and a empty coke bottle.

June 28, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterCrooked P****

Wasn't it Sartre?

February 2, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterSartre

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