Are you searching for a deeper understanding of life? Are you seeking your personal purpose or striving for a more fulfilling ...

Kierkegaard and Camus each pointed to some fundamental conditions of our existence. Life is about creating meaning. When one lives passionately, one can die without rebellion.

The French writer Albert Camus died on January 4, 1960, in a car accident on his way back to Paris from his Christmas holiday in Provence. He was 46. The car was driven by Camus' editor, Michel ...

At 2 AM, it’s hard to say what’s hitting harder, life or the spicy chhole you had for dinner. As I lay tossing and turning on the bed last night, I began to introspect.

Durkheim asserted that suicide is a social phenomenon and that an individual’s suicide is inextricably linked to their connection with society — views that are thought-provoking to this day. Suicide ...

Wars sometimes make illusions. In rumbles and pillages, once a bullet flies, there are no innocent parties. And that was the ...

Dean Kalimniou reviews Stolen Violets by Maria A. Kampyli—a poetic reflection on memory, loss, solitude, and survival written ...

I wake up and feel like I’ve wandered into a Beckett play with bad lighting. The coffee’s still bitter, the headlines still ...

Irony is a powerful skill that involves looking at ourselves more objectively. Couples that take themselves or their situation too seriously often remain stuck in cycles. Breaking negative cycles ...

“I drank the coffee, and then I wanted a cigarette,” thinks Meursault, the antihero of Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger and ... was almost an illustration of existentialism. The act seemed in some way ...