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Albert Camus

Of  Freedom and Liberty

By Gregory McNamee, Illustrations by Lauren Simkin Berke

September 8, 2020

As Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in his 1762 treatise, The Social Contract, humans are free but are everywhere in chains: literal chains, made of forged steel; or perhaps metaphorical ones, made of gold and silver, illusion, ignorance, indifference, whatever binds and traps us.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos

From Solitude to Solidarity

By David Mikics, Robert Zaretsky

Spring 2013

A century after his birth, Camus is still mislabeled and misunderstood in too many quarters. He was not a brooding, self-absorbed existential poseur, but a man of political and ethical commitment whose primary value was solidarity, the proper valuing of our ties with those around us.

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