Camus vs. Sartre (documentary)

Camus vs. Sartre. This documentary is about the battle between these two great writer/philosophers after WWII in Paris over Camus' book The Rebel. What was once a friendship had now turn sour. After the war, Camus began frequenting the Café de Flore on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris with Sartre and others. He also toured the United States to lecture about French thought. Although he leaned left, politically, his strong criticisms of Communist doctrine did not win him any friends in the Communist parties and eventually alienated Sartre. In 1949 his TB returned and Camus lived in seclusion for two years. In 1951 he published The Rebel, a philosophical analysis of rebellion and revolution which expressed his rejection of communism. Upsetting many of his colleagues and contemporaries in France, the book brought about the final split with Sartre. (Music by Satie)

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[sesquipedalophobic]

I imagine what Camus couldn't understand was how Sartre could sell not only him - his friend - down the river for failed ideology and logic, but to also defend a position of extreme hypocrisy.

I like Sartre's early work, but by the time of the rift he had nothing of value to contribute to philosophy. Camus will for me always be the bigger of the two men, and the bigger of the two minds.

[originsssunknown]

will spell it out for the stupid nazi...

in terms of his life camus lost his friends for the precise opposite reason that defines hitler or mussolini.

in terms of his ideas and literature - there is absolutely no sense to taking one idea [from a ten minute youtube video] out of context and suggesting that it's compatible with extreme right wing politics. it shows a complete ignorance and inability to come to terms with a writer's work... and even you should know that he opposed hitler!

[Mazurka1001]

Camus should have boxed the ears of the Stalinist coward. I always wondered how could a decent woman like de Beauvoir have stayed with the skunk.

[CaptainBluebear08]

I'd choose Sartre's sides. Camus was "un bel emmerdeur".

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

l'une des plus grandes batailles littéraires!

[inferno0020]

Both Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre hate Raymond Aron, whom i considered one of the most brilliant and the best intellectual in the 20th century. (Even though most of educated French hated Aron for playing a devil's advocate)

[SolaceRoom]

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[AbsurdMersault]

@sesquipedalophobic It is so.

[Mefisto1mced]

@originsssunknown it seems that reading is quite difficult, even if it is just a simple comment... 1. what i saw the 3 of them had in common was "there view about friendship", as it was written in my commentary... 2. i wasn´t referring as any such things as "right wing politics", or "concentration camps" as i never mentioned those ideas, and i never said that he was opposed or not to hitler, you clearly "overread" my comment! 3. "in terms of his life camus lost ...", what a senseless sentence

[mithrandirthewise]

@DontPrayThink Erik Satie - Gnossienne no.4