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Camus, Mathewes, and Arendt

Recently rereading The Stranger.  I read it almost 30 years ago.  Reading it again I am struck by what a great writer he is.  I think I agree with Mathewes that his thought and writing will ultimately have a greater, and positive, effect, than the writing of Sartre.  There's a power to his writing that Sartre frankly lacks.  In this I agree with the Religious Studies professor Charles Mathewes at UVA.  I read Arendt's work on Eichmann and have almost finished her work On Violence.  I'm not sure what I think of her exactly.  I thought the book on Eichmann was interesting, but I wonder just how original it was.  I'm going to start reading Mathewes' book Evil and the Augustinian Tradition and see if anything is interesting there. In the meantime, I encourage those who haven't read Camus in a number of years, to give his books another look.  I plan on rereading The Plague and The Fall as well.  I am struck by the fact that Camus was criticized by Sartre for presen