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Hi /lit/, I recently finished The Myth of Sisyphus and I really liked it, it was a hard read but it made me ponder a lot when I understood it, can you recommend me some other non-fictions essays like this one.

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>> No.1056167

Fuck yeah existentialism.

>> No.1056166

I kind of like Camus but I identify myself more as a nihilist; I don't believe in 'life is what you make of it' to some extent. I think it has no meaning whatsoever, and the only reason to live is to, well, just live and enjoy it while it lasts.

In b4 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NietzscheWannabe

Is there any philosopher sharing this point of view? I think neither Nietzsche nor Schopenhauer were nihilists (at least not in that sense) but I'm still searching. Help please

>> No.1056201

mmm... the file name should be absurdism not existentialism imho

>> No.1056413

bump: I bought The Plague, The fall, The kingdom and selected essays compilation (I never liked the Stranger but I hope these other fiction works of Camus are better)

I also bought The Portable Atheist because I feel bad for Hitchen's

>> No.1056422

that pic is so hipster

>> No.1056434

>>1056422
It's the new Dr. Bronner's label.

>> No.1056461

>>1056166
>I don't believe in 'life is what you make of it'
>the only reason to live is to, well, just live and enjoy it while it lasts
>enjoy it
>implying that "enjoying life while it lasts" isn't making something of it, in that you imbue certain things/actions with meaning because you enjoy them

I hate you.

>> No.1056473

The Rebel

>> No.1056474
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>>1056434
I just looked that shit up, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Do they actually sell this?

>> No.1056478

>>1056474
Yeah dude, I have a bottle. It's actually great soap, the guy that makes it is batshit insane though.

>> No.1056483

>The Myth of Sisyphus
>non-fictions essays

kill yourself, you fucking degenerate. What's actually said in Sisyphus amounts to around a paragraph, the rest is padded-out nonsense betraying Camus' status as an inferior writer with ill-fated notions of philosophy.

>> No.1056491

>existentialism

"Lol hey guys let's overcome nihilism through the positing of an heroic ego lol yeah that'll work"

You've got to hand it to the orients that they were never this retarded

>> No.1056493

>>1056483
...

>> No.1056501
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>>1056491
How deep and edgy of you.

>> No.1056508

>>1056483
wow, I feel stupid for writing that redundant phrase, and I was referring to this edition: http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Sisyphus-Other-Essays/dp/0679733736/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qi
d=1282255385&sr=1-1

not the single essay, for me the whole concept of the absurd, the suicide option, intellectual-suicide, living without appeal, the nausea, nostalgia, making a revolt; amounts to more than a paragraph, imho he named things I've felt before but never dared to inspect further.

>> No.1056510

firez you are a shitty tripfag get off of my boarx

>> No.1056514

>>1056491
you know that existentialism and absurdism are different things, right?

>> No.1056519

>>1056514

Yeah yeah, the absurd is the big bad boogie-man existentialists piss their pants over. Frankly I don't see why one wouldn't just subsume absurdism under nihilism, but then it's not my fault existentialists are narrow-minded narcissists.

>> No.1056521

>>1056514
No they're not you hipster Nihilism existentialism absurdism it's all the same

>> No.1056528

>>1056521
Not the guy you responded to.
I just realized I was arguing with you on /mu/. Wow, you need to post on 2 boards to pretend you're deep?

>> No.1056534

>>1056528
You don't understand the universe like I do.

>> No.1056535

>>1056521
>Nihilism existentialism absurdism it's all the same
hahaha wow, I can't believe some people on this board actually thought I was an alt of this myopic oaf

>> No.1056543

>>1056535
You should feel honored to be compared to me with all your constant shitposting.

>> No.1056563

>>1056534
That was a very hipster thing for you to say.

>> No.1056566

>>1056563
You don't know what a hipster is then, apparently.

>> No.1056577

this is why we can't have nice things

>> No.1056580

>>1056566
A hipster is an obnoxious dick who believes he has all the answers.

So basically you.

>> No.1056583

>>1056580
You're just further reinforcing my point that you have no idea what a hipster is. Enjoy being wrong.

>> No.1056599

can someone tell me how to block tripfags?

>> No.1056600

>>1056599
Why? Are you scared of enlightenment?

>> No.1056857
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1056857

Existentialism is a Humanism by Sartre

or just get this book

here
http://rapidshare.com/files/340724186/Existentialism.from.Dostoevsky.to.Sartre.pdf

also, inb4 sasha grey

>> No.1056869

>>1056146
If this guy's link works>>1056857

you are set

>> No.1057420

>>1056869
>>1056857
wow, thanks anon!, I thought this thread was dead