The Praxis author and Upstairs, Downstairs writer remembers a quote from Albert Camus about the doomed, mythological Greek king Sisyphus when she gets discouraged. It might be wise to take writing ...

I have an unhealthy bias toward Albert Camus and this started the first time I read The Stranger when I was in the 9th grade. I was naïve and I couldn't properly comprehend the gravity of the novella, ...

"One always finds one's burden again." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Let's start with a little mythology. This week's episode of Fargo, "The Myth of Sisyphus," borrows the title of an Albert ...

It’s a moral imperative that all Black children learn to read, not just be functionally literate, but learn to become active, critical readers capable of comprehension of how new ideas and facts ...

Founded in 1930, Vittorio Klostermann Verlag is an academic publisher focusing on the humanities. Its main emphasis is on philosophy, notably with the Complete Edition of Martin Heidegger’s works and ...

It has been wisely put that “life must be lived forward but that it can only be understood by looking at it backwards.” In this context, myths are among those mirrors to the human soul that provide ...

In the well-known myth of Greek mythology, the gods inflict a terrible punishment on Sisyphus: He has to push a heavy rock uphill, but shortly before succeeding to place the rock on the hill's top, ...

In the well-known myth of Greek mythology, the gods inflict a terrible punishment on Sisyphus: He has to push a heavy rock uphill, but shortly before succeeding to place the rock on the hill's top, ...