Giving myself 12 months to live, to decide how to prepare to die. Pursuit of individual fulfilment.
www.reddit.com — 7 okt 2026Some context. I have just turned 18 and am about to graduate highschool with very competitive grades studying mostly advanced humanities. I have…
Deep rooted hollowness arising from thought
www.reddit.com — 6 okt 2026I've been searching for answers for years. I've tried consciousness altering substances, spent a few months in a monastery, and read the…
the birth of existentialism
www.reddit.com — 5 okt 2026Hi, I’m new to existentialism. Recently, I am wondering about the socio-economic context of Europe in XIX - XX centuries. Which events you think have…
If nothing is guaranteed to matter, what makes something worth caring about?
www.reddit.com — 5 okt 2026 I’ve been trying to understand existentialism, and one thing I keep coming back to is the idea that maybe life doesn’t come with a meaning…
The biggest question of all boils down to 'But what do I want?' after needs. And I'm looking for resources that give that a framework.
www.reddit.com — 2 okt 2026Using Maslow’s hierarchy as a rough framework, the lower needs give you fairly concrete problems to solve. You need food, housing, safety, some…
Albert Camus books suggestion
www.reddit.com — 1 okt 2026Suggest me all worth reading books of Camus , so I can purchase them and fill my library, obviously I'll read them. (The stranger I've read…
The tension between Camus’ absurd and Sartre’s radical freedom: why invented meaning so often feels hollow.
www.reddit.com — 1 okt 2026 A persistent tension arises between Camus’ account of the absurd in The Myth of Sisyphus and Sartre’s doctrine of radical freedom in *Being…
A book on existentialism, but without reference to existentialists.
www.reddit.com — 30 sep 2026Existentialism? I have read Heidegger all my life. Most everything available in English. And once upon a time I read Sartre. It never took. My…
Lazare Bickel and The Rebel
www.reddit.com — 28 sep 2026Hello fellow absurdists. 🪨 If there is someone who has read Lazare Bickel's article "La physique confirme la philosophie"…
Existential Fly
www.reddit.com — 25 sep 2026(In Its Life and Plight, It Aways Has To Try) By Bocephus Jackson, The Hemlock Bard, ©2026 Bocephus Jackson. All Rights Reserved _______ "Man is…
Is absurdism really a leap of faith?
www.reddit.com — 25 sep 2026Camus seems to dismiss philosophers like kant, kierkegaard, jaspers, and others for taking an unsubstantiated leap of faith. But doesn't camus…
Best Existentialism Reader?
www.reddit.com — 25 sep 2026I've got three options for "readers" in existentialism. Which do you think is the best? The Penguin Book of Existential Philosophy…
How do you maintain an Absurdist mindset without falling into the void of Nihilism?"
www.reddit.com — 23 sep 2026Is it normal to actively embrace the absurd by laughing in the face of life’s total lack of inherent purpose, while simultaneously fighting off those…
Meursault vs Priest
www.reddit.com — 22 sep 2026Absurd explains why Meursault even bothers to go to his mother’s funeral, why he kills an arab. Because why not. But why would Camus write him angry…
Je suis musulman mais je trouve du réconfort chez camus
www.reddit.com — 19 sep 2026Es ce que c'est bizarre de trouver du réconfort dans l absurde et le mythe de sysiphe ou l'étranger tout en étant musulman donc penser que…
Is revolt actually just acceptance?
www.reddit.com — 10 sep 2026Ive been trying to engage with absurdism critically and I am really struggling with the framing of revolt. If revolt, to the best of my…