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LESSON 8 · The Quest for Meaning

PAUSE TO THINK

Did Camus call himself an existentialist?

No — he rejected the label

Camus is often grouped with the existentialists, but he repeatedly refused the term. He saw his philosophy of the absurd as distinct, and his public break with Jean-Paul Sartre helped cement that distance.

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