Yet Camus too is concerned with the creation of meaning in a meaningless world through the process of living life. The disappearance of truth and goals gives way to the absurdity of existence. The Absurd deals more with the irresolvable paradox between objective judgment of an action and the subjective motivation behind its performance. According to Existentialism, man existed among and against other men in a brutal adventure to which one must give meaning through his actions. Although Camus later tried to distance himself from the concept of Existentialism, critics still place him there and his own ideas were influenced by the forum of Sartre and other Existentialist philosophers of the time. He was interested in living life and the struggle for meaning without the distraction of dreams and fabrications. Due to Camus' working-class upbringing, he grows up with a suspicion toward idealism and introspection. These influences and moods helped formulate the philosophies of Existentialism and the Absurd as associated with Sartre and Camus. Faulkner, Hemingway, and Dos Passos were translated into French and many guess that their styles and concepts made their way into the philosophy of Camus at this time. Sartre was struggling against the shallow rationalism of Cartesian thought. German phenomenology was flowing into France. Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky had remained significant in thought since the turn of the century. Camus was influenced by a diverse collection of foreign authors and philosophies in the 1930s.
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