Camus’s existentialist musings are also even more stripped down and intense than Sartre’s. As I mentioned earlier, Sartre did some (kind of contradictory) work to make his philosophy compatible with Communist political movements in postwar France; Camus didn’t care about that. Sartre thought we should perform actions that could serve as models for others; Camus didn’t care about that either. His existentialism is like a balsamic reduction of Sartre’s—sharper, more intense, more potent. In fact, Camus actually claimed repeatedly that he wasn’t an existentialist, but come on, dude, yes you were.
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