Albert Camus on Nihilism

[UndergroundNotation]

Is it just me, or does the interviewer look like lacan?

[Ferrari312pb]

Mon Dieu, il est si cool !

[goodvibesallround]

Just finished reading the outsider....amazing book.

[greenghost2008]

@omegapoint777 I could use a jew pervert right about now. In fact, give me a jew pervert everytime I'm down for some fucking.

[jOARhannes]

Thank you very much for the subtitles...there are not a lot of subtitled interviews with albert camus on youtube!

[Ilikelimpbizkit]

When it says "not included in the roman", it should say, "not included in the novel" because roman is French for novel.

[dedbusted]

@Ilikelimpbizkit As it is in other languages. Most people watching this probably are already aware of that--most of us here are probably literature majors, French students, philosophers, or scholars...

[Laou41]

WHAT A HUMBLE BOSS! Fuck celebrities of today with their arrogance and egotism. Camus wished to write a beautiful play, that's all, not to become world renowned and famous!

[EITrollo]

@MrXephyr omg, there goes another independent "thinker" who deems "mental capacity" important. treating brain as a muscle, there you go...

[jeffreygarten]

Elegant!

[cornishpastie9]

@MrXephyr

No-one's quite sure what Dostoyevsky actually thought by the end, he presented so many views in his books that you're never sure which character is closest to his own viewpoint.

[tovstenko]

horrible person along with sartre!!!!!!!!!!!

[glassjaw2007]

@tovstenko your mom was horrible too but after all you were born anyways =(

[Tmants5654]

I'm reading The Myth of Sisyphus at the moment, great stuff. Camus is great. I can;t to further study him.

[jlmagoya]

Excellent entretien. Personne excepté Camus ne pouvait aboutir une tâche aussi complexe telle que de mettre en scène l'ouvre de Dostoievsky. J'y vois pas de nihilisme à vrai dire la dedans, mais du grand travail et de la foi en soi même.

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

Obvious troll is cunt.

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 shut up jew.

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

What's the point of you? Is the whole purpose of your life to be a mild annoyance?

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 life has no purpose you ignorant whoreson.

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

Yours doesn't. Some people haven't lapsed into nihilistic sociopathy yet.

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 most people never face the fundamental emptiness of existence. they pretend their life has a meaning and purpose and they "socialize" with other delusional cowards. so fucking be it.

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

Some people 'face the fundamental emptiness of existence' and get the fuck over it.

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 how exactly? by accepting the "sisyphus fate" (or "sissy-puss", as my favorite hooker calls him)? living on in spite of futility of it all? keep rolling that same fucking rock? is that what you meant? newsflash: camus himself didn't believe that shit. he wrote that essay in order to keep his job and pay. it's a garbage can piece of philosophy for the naive undergrads and their sissy-puss professors. "eine kleine nachtmusik" of philosophy or something... fuck dat.

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

Sissy-puss? You're so witty! Well done. Well it's a good job you can read Camus's mind, troll.

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 oh, i didn't see that one coming but thanks man. i did think it was pretty wittily stated, so i guess i nailed that one right. thanks:)

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

It's like speaking to an annoying twelve-year-old...

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 kids are not annoying. delusional adults are.

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

And which are you?

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 an adult without illusions (but with a child's soul).

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

trololol

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 0wned

[cornishpastie9]

@EITrollo

Bored.

[EITrollo]

@cornishpastie9 yawned.

[5150zombie]

@EITrollo come on, name-o petrone, I agree wit ya.

[EITrollo]

@5150zombie i recommend ye download mozilla spell check plug-in.

[TheGingerNinja718]

if he's so clever - yeah ? why can't he speak american like the rest of us ? yeah ? am I right ?

[KrugmanTheKing]

Well, I speak French so it's not annoying to hear from times to times. But you're not missing a lot, unless you enjoy playing with the language and seeing different sentence structures, interesting constructions, etc. He's basically making lengthy and very accurate statements. It's nice, but verbally when you're not used to it, you loose track of the idea more easily.

And you probably do not want a person brought up in France to answer in English.

[AndersOrwell]

@TheGingerNinja718 You cannot be serious.

[TheGingerNinja718]

couldn't understand a word - if he was so clever why doesn't he speak american ? yeah ?

[greenghost2008]

Pressing mute in order to not listen to French.

[glassjaw2007]

@greenghost2008 pressing Flag for Spam in order to avoid maggot comments...

[PublicSecrecy]

Damn, the look on his face at the end of that clip is itself simultaneously summarizing and prophetic.

[FellOnSoundGarden]

Why do french speakers talk so fast? holy crap

[KrugmanTheKing]

@FellOnSoundGarden

We tend to use a different wordings and structures, so the content of a sentence, pronunciation-wise, is often much heavier in French on average -- it's even worst here because the guy is very educated. The rest of that impression might be you hearing noise instead of meaningful words: if you'd speak French, it wouldn't seem that fast. Camus isn't speaking peculiarly fast, by the way.

[FellOnSoundGarden]

@KrugmanTheKing

That's what I figured, I was sort of joking when I made that comment. :) I appreciate the response though, I love to learn about languages. But I guess the fact that I don't hear any meaningful words does make it seem faster. Let me ask you a question, if you don't mind, would you consider it harder for a francophone to learn English or an anglophone to learn french?

[KrugmanTheKing]

@FellOnSoundGarden

It's harder for a francophone to learn to pronounce in English than it is for an English speaker to do the same with French. However, it's at least ten times easier to speak and write properly in English than in French.

You have to think that French has been historically a language of nobles who wanted distinction from their serfs -- they purposefully followed an already complex language (Latin) and introduce many exceptions.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@FellOnSoundGarden

*introduced

In England, times were much different. They were the first to impose limits to the royal power in 1215, the first to make a revolution in 1688 and, then, the first to enter industrial revolution in the second half of the 18th century (that's nearly over a 100 years before say Canada, for example). It's also that, since, it became the language of every day and of international trade... it has evolved to become simple.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@FellOnSoundGarden

We still use things like a formal or plural and informal second person; verb endings vary a lot; we have inversions of verb and objects; we make a very important use of passive structures; we have still traces of declension classes with pronouns (that's to say, we use a different version of the same pronoun depending on if it is a direct object, indirect object or subject)...

[KrugmanTheKing]

@FellOnSoundGarden

The worst part for english speakers is probably this one:

All pronouns, articles, nouns, adjectives and past participles must agree in gender and number with something, depending on the case.

So, you have to understand how words are formed and what the orthography means to spot that a table is a feminin noun in French. Want an example on how nice our exceptions are? If you have to say Mark, Sophia and Mary using "them," the them translates in plural and masculine.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@FellOnSoundGarden

One guy a million girls, them is masculine plural in French because there is one masculine noun in the group. If not, it's feminine plural. An other one, for our plural, almost every noun takes an s, except for when they end by u, then you us an x. Well, there's an exception for the exception: for 7 words in the whole language, you have to use an s after the u.

And it's like that over and over.

[AhYaOk]

there's a distinction between what dostoyevsky himself believed and what his characters were made to represent. of course it showed his own ambivalence, but I’m sure he was more sophisticated than what people give him credit for.

[brod2man]

well he didnt talk about nihilism, is the book/play worth reading?

[bicrehan]

@brod2man Absolutely. It's long, and somewhat "convoluted" given the shorter, more straightforward popular novels of then and today, but it's literally spilling over with ideas concerning, among other things, the nihilism mentioned in the title.

[thprfssnl1]

wow the interviewer ends the interview in a very cocky, condescending manner IMO

[slayerkid0196]

It sends shivers down my spine hearing this amazing genius talking.

[TheChap36]

Wow, man. He died too soon. Personally, I'm not that interested in Nihilism or Existentialism, but it's a pleasure hearing this great thinker speak...Especially discussing Dostoyevsky. I think society today takes for granted the ideas of Nihilism and Existentialism; people don't make enough time for themselves to understand their purpose and what to make of what we are or what we're here for. That's pretty much all Camus did...when he wasn't scoring with all the high-end tail of his day.

[knightoftheroze]

Manila Syndicate-No it is not surprising that Camus became

a Christian. The ethos of his work from "The Rebel" to "Resistance,

Rebellion, and Death" is Christian without Christianity. It is hard to

know if Camus would have incorporated his newfound religion into

his writing. I wish Howard Mumma had not kept this conversion quiet for

40 years. Revealing it would have changed many lives. In '64, a brilliant

friend of mine told me of the conversion and of its being kept quiet.

[ManilaSyndicate]

Thanks for uploading this historical film, and with subtitles too! It's interesting in revealing Camus' character the way he probably was: basically well-meaning but touchy and sensitive, intense and sombre. The tuberculosis that ailed him most of his life clearly left it's mark on him. Sad to know a year later from the time the film was shot he would be gone.

[knightoftheroze]

"Albert Camus Meets The Minister" by Howard Mumma.

Read it and weep.

Gabriel Marcel had already predicted Camus would

turn Chrstian. As he predicted Sartre would become Marxist.

[ManilaSyndicate]

@knightoftheroze Thanks for the suggestion. I read a portion of the work in the 'net and I found it to be a fascinating and moving read.

I don't think it's really a surprise that Camus would have reverted to Christianity. He was far too intelligent and humane to justify his earlier beliefs.

It would have been interesting had he lived whether he would have included his newfound interest for the religion into his writings.

[BERTRAMCAT]

RIP Pierre Dumayet.

RIP Albert Camus.

Vous nous manquez.

[147chepe]

por favor, subtitulen este vídeo al español

[thundermorphine]

A master adapting the work of a God.

[knightoftheroze]

Several weeks before his death, Camus asked a Methodist minister to baptize him. The minister advised Camus to wait to be sure this is what he wanted. That was the last conversation he and Camus had.

[whirlwindbliss]

@knightoftheroze Bullshit.

[jesuisravi]

The intelligence of Camus shows up in this very clearly

[ma3rui4si1]

They spoke about the play, I didn't hear a single idea about nihilism!

[nlytend1]

@PeterRoeder31 That's the funniest thing I've heard all day

[nlytend1]

@PeterRoeder31 That's the funniest thing I've heard all day

[muckletoon]

The Italian press published claims recently that Camus was murdered by the KGB, given the bostonbrakes treatment.

[KotAdolphe]

Thank you for this video!

[LadyRuby75]

Thank you for uploading this and thank you for the translation.

[danielambroziak]

thanks for this, but the title is somewhat misleading...still, good stuff.

[HistoryLubber]

I am not sure that it is now more than ever before that mankind has displayed the effects of nihilism. History as my witness.

[classicallady]

Tres bien fait. Merci bien.

[TheKafkianProcess]

Thank you for this.

I was particularly impressed by his body language at the end of this interview, as he felt discomfort for the last two questions. It reveals some sort of humbleness.

[liamstonepocket]

Thank you!

[FMD1982]

I have been looking for this to be translated for so long... you have my greatest thanks as well!

[mikezephyr]

It's amazing that Albert Camus accepted the Nobel for Literature based on the Rebel L'Homme révolté, but insisted in his speech that it should really go to Nikos Kazantzakis for Zorba the Greek.

Both life-changing books for me personally.

[mikezephyr]

Thanks so much. I plan on making a video-portrait of Camus, based on this section. With English subtitles in it. I'd appreciate your input too.

[vivachetbaker]

un grandissimo e che sguardo umile, proprio lui che è il top!

[fmusngi]

thanks for translating. i really really appreciate that. (:

[Cherrypoppins18]

Thanks for this