In a word, Camus claims, “No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.”6 This condition amounts to what Camus calls absurdity: the clash between the human need for meaning and values against a world which refuses to grant it. Camus describes absurdity as a condition “born of this confrontation between the human need [for meaning] and the unreasonable silence of the world.”7 Therefore, if this aspect of The Myth of Sisyphus
were to hold true throughout Camus’ corpus, the aforementioned statements about Camus are true. Camus is, at first blush, a thinker with nothing to teach us; this irresolvable clash between human need and silence must be “clung to because the whole
were to hold true throughout Camus’ corpus, the aforementioned statements about Camus are true. Camus is, at first blush, a thinker with nothing to teach us; this irresolvable clash between human need and silence must be “clung to because the whole