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Caligula engineers his own assassination and is stabbed multiple times in the final scene. Why then are his final words "I'm still alive"?
One way Camus’ enigmatic masterpiece "The Fall" (1956) can be understood is as a damning critique of the modern intellectual scene.
Deconstruction has both fierce critics and staunch defenders. How did it start, and what makes it so controversial yet appealing?
A religious academic of fame and privilege, Al-Ghazālī left it all behind in search of spiritual fulfillment.
Camus’s novel is translated into English as "The Stranger" in the US and "The Outsider" in the UK. What difference does translation make?
On a youthful trip to Italy, Camus was inspired by a Renaissance fresco to develop his philosophy of the absurd.
Scholars call Meursault cold, inept, and unreflective. But the novel tells a very different story. Here is what the text actually shows.
Thomas Aquinas argued that evil wasn't a tangible reality but a lack of good, and that it was known to God through His omniscience.
