Where no one can come into contact with anyone else except across a maze of what we call formalities. … With so much paper, so many offices and functionaries, we are creating a world in which human warmth has disappeared. The war was over but a certain kind of plague persisted:Ĭontemporary man tends more and more to put between himself and nature an abstract and complex machinery that casts him into solitude.
He went further, arguing that the postwar world had fallen into complacency. The philosopher, who was expected to talk about French theater and philosophy, lingered on the pathologies that produced Nazism. But in his address, Camus did not oblige that sentiment. The Nazis had been defeated the year before and there was a belief that some kind of final victory over fascism had been achieved. Camus had achieved worldwide fame with the publication of his 1942 novel, The Stranger, and his stature as an artist and a member of the French resistance had grown considerably over the course of the war. It was his first and only trip to America. In March 1946, the French philosopher and novelist Albert Camus sailed across the Atlantic to deliver a speech at Columbia University.
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