The Myth of Sisyphus

Author: Camus, Albert

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Published on 25 August 2005 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Great Ideas' series.

Paperback | 144 pages
181 x 112 x 9 | 90g

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Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.