Informit article: Self-immolation

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Arena Magazine no. 145

Tim Robertson

Dec 2016

Abstract:

For all the book’s flaws, Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus remains one of the best encapsulations of what it means to engage in political struggle. Faced with insurmountable adversity, in Camus’ meaningless world the only answer is to make resistance one’s raison d’etre. How, then, does one square the injunction to ‘imagine Sisyphus happy’ with the almost certain death of those Tibetans who, in protesting Chinese rule, self-immolate?

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