Albert Camus

Albert Camus in 1957.

What Albert Camus can teach us about nation-building

Global Politics

Albert Camus was dashing, brilliant and died young. The French Algerian intellectual, philosopher and writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature at the tender age of 44 but died in a car crash just a few years later. His books like “The Myth of Sisyphus” and “The Plague” are still read by college students and even world leaders. But Camus’ standing in France was forever tarnished by his views on the Algerian war.

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