Hope(lessness) in the Stories of Abraham and Sisyphus
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-024-01030-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11841-024-01030-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hope(lessness) in the Stories of Abraham and Sisyphus
Original language description
When looked at under the perspective of hope, existential philosophers Albert Camus and Soren Kierkegaard are typically seen as inverted images of one another: Kierkegaard embraces hope, which for him is a religious sentiment that he describes at length in Fear and Trembling through the character of Abraham. Camus - on the other hand - rejects hope, seeing both Kierkegaard and Abraham as individuals who had committed what Camus terms a 'philosophical suicide.' Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus can thus be understood as an answer to Kierkegaard's Abraham: Sisyphus - unlike Abraham - is an individual who had accepted the absurd nature of the world, rejected hope, and thus achieved happiness. In my paper, I will argue that Camus' criticism of Kierkegaard and of Abraham is not final - I will argue that Camus, in fact, sees hope as an existentially important phenomenon. I will show that Camus does not reject hope in The Myth of Sisyphus but that he merely temporarily suspends it, only to return to it in his later writings. The Myth of Sisyphus is therefore only one of the many 'stages on life's way,' and I will argue that hope is an important aspect of human existence not only for Kierkegaard but also for Camus. That said, Camus' understanding of hope will not be the same as Kierkegaard's; hope will exist not in relation to God, but in a relationship with other human beings.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sophia
ISSN
0038-1527
e-ISSN
1873-930X
Volume of the periodical
64
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
213-227
UT code for WoS article
001272741700002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198938404