"On Sisyphus and Teaching," an essay by Edmund Sass
If that essay is a little too heavy for you, try "Sisyphus, the Rap Version."
Want to learn more about Sisyphus, Albert Camus, or Existentialism? Try the links I've listed below:
Sisyphus and Camus' Essay, "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Sisyphus
(a brief account from the Encyclopedia
of Greek Mythology)
Read
Camus' essay, "The Myth of Sisyphus."
The Absurd Hero
(an interpretive essay)
The Myth
of Sisyphus: A Cycle (an essay comparing Camus' Sisyphus to Buddhist
beliefs.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
(a short biography)
The Existence of Albert
Camus (biography, bibliography, quotes, analyses, bookshop, and links)
Albert Camus
(timeline plus links to homepages, biographies, articles, essays, reviews,
and related sites)
Albert
Camus Critical Interpretation Homepage (an interactive site with a
biography plus essays by and about Camus)
Existentialism
What
is existentialism? (a good place to find a nearly understandable answer
to this question)
Existentialism
(another explanation with information on major themes and some existential
thinkers)
Existentialism
(one more explanation as well as information about several existential
writers and philosophers)
The
Realm of Existentialism (once you get past the annoying Java Script
error, this is an excellent page with information on the basics of existentialism,
selected quotes, and the "minds of existentialism")
If you have comments
or suggestions regarding this page,
please send them
to me, Edmund J. Sass, Ed.D.
You can reach me
at
esass@csbsju.edu