Solomon makes the case that--despite their very different responses to the political questions of their day--Camus and Sartre were both fundamentally moralists, and their philosophies cannot be understood apart from their deep ethical commitments. He focuses on Sartre's early, pre-1950 work, and on Camus's best known novels The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall.

Robert C. SolomonQuincy Centennial Professor of Philosophy and Business, University of Texas at Austin

"This book should appeal to a great many people: it is of interest to philosophers who are interested in topics outside the narrow bandwidth of technophilosophy, to teachers and students in philosophy in literature courses, to all students of literature, especially of French literature, and of course to the amazingly large group of people who read everything Solomon writes." --Charles Guignon, University of South Florida |k No