Camus:
the problem of evil
and the tragic
sense of life

Camus is often thought of as a radical atheist. I argue that his work is in fact characterised by a tension between two views which are both at least quasi-religious: a pantheistic sense of a normative cosmic order, and a quasi-Gnostic “metaphysical revolt” against that order on account of the suffering that pervades it.

By Anthony Rudd

Seminar

June 28, 2023