Episode #224 ... Albert Camus - The Stranger

hello everyone I'm Steven West this is philosophies this so today we're going to start talking about Albert Camu and how perfectly he fits into this conversation we've been having lately see when people talk about Kimu a lot of people know about his book The Stranger I mean it's one of the most famous books in history it's expected but not as many people know about something else that's exciting from him which is the book he wrote just before he wrote The Stranger it's a book that he chose to never publish during his lifetime for reasons we'll see it was only published after his death by his estate but nonetheless if your goal was to understand Camu the best you could then reading this book in particular is going to be important for knowing how his thinking was evolving during the late 1930s and this book has context in it that's often missed if you want to understand his full project as a thinker the book is called a happy death and it's a book that surprisingly of all things mostly focuses on the idea of Happiness now if you're confused here a little bit you have good right to be I mean why would Camu start write and finish a book about happiness then choose to never publish it then to only have his next book be written about a character who seems to care almost nothing about happiness well we'll understand why by the end of this here today I mean if you're reading the stranger if that's the reason you came to this episode just in the first few pages of this book you'll notice it's written from the perspective of a guy named Mero and that this guy Muro is a character that's famously indifferent to the state of the world around him you've no doubt heard the first line of this book people will have a a contion fit talking about it mother died yesterday or was it the day before I can't remember all over the world conniption fits happen every day about this line cuz this is great writing from Camu just a few words into the book we already know quite a bit about who Maro is as a character he doesn't play the game of society like other people do he hasn't put on any affect just to ...