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 c...