what are the difference between Camus and Satre in terms of their response to absurdity?

Question

freedom, passion, and revolt

Answer 1

freedom,is a state of mind, not a definitive
passion is a state of mind , not a difinitive
whilst revolt is a state of mind it is also prelude to a definitive
that is the difference.

Answer 2

One of the most basic differences I've seen is that Camus believes the individual is helplessly subjected to the absurdity of life while Sartre believes the individual can rise above life's absurdity to some extent. If you read Camus's The Fall or The Stranger, it seems the main characters in each of these stories are never in control of what happens to them. They just mechanically float throughout life being subjected to its absurdities and nothing seems to matter. In The Fall, the major character shoots someone and makes it seem as if it doesn't matter--that's just what I did. If I didn't do that I would have done something else wrong. So what? That response to life's absurdity is apathetic or the assumption that you are helpless and play no role in your fate. If you read Sartre (not so much his plays like "No Exit" but the works in which he simply lays out his philosophy) he believed too much in the individual's role as free but still socially responsibility for his or her actions-- as if the individual is not helpless to the absurdities of life but can (and should) still act responsibly.

--And by the way, good luck trying to get an answer for this on Yahoo's questions and answers (talk about absurd) !

Answer 3

201 you may have missed some of the subtleties of the stranger. It is the ending that is important in that story as the subject finds peace from within in one of the unlikeliest of places, the inside of a prison cell, when he never had such peace previously regardless of his surroundings. The absurdity and/or irony being though the man had freedom he was never free until he lost it as we generally equate freedom; in the physical sense.

Camus and Sartre certainly were at odds in their later philosophies but to outline their differences here in this little box with any conciseness seems as absurd as anything written about by either.

Answer 4

Camus was a relatively young hot-head who could be expected to see the absurdity of life. Sartre was under the thumb of de Beauvoir, who kept his feet more or less on the ground