Sartre Writes a Tribute to Camus After His Friend-Turned-Rival Dies in a Tragic Car Accident: “There Is an Unbearable Absurdity in His Death”

The friendship of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus ended, famously, in 1951. That year, increasingly fractious political tensions between the two philosopher-writers came to a head over the publication of Camus’ The Rebel, a book-length essay that marked a departure from revolutionary thought and a turn toward a more pragmatic individualism (as well as recalling […]

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