{"id":7471,"date":"2015-01-04T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/04\/remembering-albert-camus-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:00:35","slug":"remembering-albert-camus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/04\/remembering-albert-camus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Albert Camus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07d21d18970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Albert_Camus2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07d21d18970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07d21d18970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Albert_Camus2\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Albert Camus, one of the luminaries of French existentialism, died on this day in 1960, in a car crash.&#0160; Not tragically, straining hubristically against limits, but absurdly, a passenger in a recklessly-piloted vehicle. &quot;In his coat pocket was an unused train ticket. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but at the last minute he accepted his publisher&#39;s proposal to travel with him.<sup id=\"cite_ref-15\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Camus#cite_note-15\">[15]<\/a><\/sup>&quot; (Wikipedia)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Camus was 46, in the middle of the middle decade of middle age.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/entranced-by-reality\/\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is a review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Worth-Living-Albert-Meaning\/dp\/0674724763\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=theamericonse-20&amp;linkCode=w01&amp;linkId=K4VXHYDYFXA2VRV6&amp;creativeASIN=0674724763\" target=\"_blank\">A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning<\/a>, Robert Zaretsky, Belknap Press, 240 pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/01\/xavier-ortiz-monasterio-1926-2011-an-existentialist-remembered.html\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> I remember my former colleague, Xavier Ortiz Monasterio, whose philosophical hero was Camus and who also, curiously enough, died on January 4th (2011).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Camus, one of the luminaries of French existentialism, died on this day in 1960, in a car crash.&#0160; Not tragically, straining hubristically against limits, but absurdly, a passenger in a recklessly-piloted vehicle. &quot;In his coat pocket was an unused train ticket. He had planned to travel by train with his wife and children, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/04\/remembering-albert-camus-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering Albert Camus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camus","category-existentialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}