Albert Camus Enamel Pin, button, absurdism, the rebel, the stranger, football

Description: Albert Camus inspired enamel pin Camus No. 1 Camus played as goalkeeper for Racing Universitaire d'Alger (RUA won both the North African Champions Cup and the North African Cup twice each in the 1930s) junior team from 1928 to 1930. Any football ambitions disappeared when he contracted tuberculosis at the age of 17. The affliction, which was then incurable, caused Camus to be bedridden for long and painful periods. "After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it in the RUA." - 1.5" in size- Gold platting - With backing card Albert Camus (/kæˈmuː/;[2] French: [albɛʁ kamy] (About this sound listen); 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 43 in 1957, the second youngest recipient in history.[3] Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as a follower of it, even in his lifetime.[4] In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked."[5] Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family and studied at the University of Algiers, from which he graduated in 1936. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons[6] to "denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA".[7]

Price: 7.5 GBP

Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire

End Time: 2024-09-04T16:01:55.000Z

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