Im a total pleb and im having a hard time reading this, is this normal or am i retarded

retarded and should stop trying

>>7657234
You're retarded but keep trying.

Disclaimer: I have not read it.

>>7657234
What have you read before?

>>7657234

i was in the same position you are in once, i stopped trying and picked the fall instead.

>>7657238
I started reading in september and so far i read entry level lit, like brave new world, the stranger, Death of ivan illich, A supposedly fun thing i will never do again, 1984, etc.

>>7657234

It's a shitty essay anyway. Read his other stuff or just drop him, it doesn't matter.

>>7657251
and how you are doing now?

>>7657234
Welp, I just finished it OP. I don't know if it was my version translation making it feel weird (french->portushit) but it's easy to understand. i think you may retarded.

>>7657294

im pretty patrish. don't lose hope, continue reading total pleb books for now and you'll work your way up. good luck anon!

>>7657234
How far have you made?
I have the same problem with this, the information is very dense and concentrated in Myth Of Sisyphus

>>7657396
im like 30-40 pages in.

if you know some background information its a lot easier

>>7657406
i'm close to 60, but i'm very tempted to quit reading it

>>7657429
>background information

for example?

>>7657433
At least is a short book

>>7657234
give up

>>7657677
:(

>>7657234
Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.

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Incidentally I also just read the essay.

I feel like some guy actually thinking about suicide will take nothing away from this theoretical analysis of absurd or paradoxical and frustrating conclusions.
Why is he arguing this is such a pressing issue? I've accepted that there are non-well-answerable questions as a fact (I guess in the Wittgensteinian sense of the setups being bad) and I see no issue with that. Just do what you like - you don't have to call that hedonism (and dismiss it like Kierkegaard), just because you have some fun. Set a goal and enjoy the journey.

So can someone explain why Camus thinks there is this dramatic problem with occurrence of "the absurd"?

>>7657742
He thought the only meaningful question in philosophy was whether or not you should kill yourself.

>>7659330
And he was right

>>7659976
The answer is yes.