Unit 8 Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • identify the role of Albert Camus in the history of existentialism;
  • compare Camus' critique of rationality with those of his predecessors;
  • analyze Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus”;
  • summarize Camus' idea of the absurd; and
  • discuss the value of The Stranger as an existentialist work of fiction and its contribution to Camus' philosophy of the absurd.
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