Sartre accused Camus of smuggling Humean skepticism into The Stranger

Evidence

Sartre therefore wrote in his review of The Stranger that Camus ‘is claiming to render raw experience and yet he is slyly filtering out all the meaningful connections which are also part of the experience’. Camus, he said, was too influenced by David Hume, who ‘announced that all he could find in experience was isolated impressions’. Sartre thinks life only looks pointillist like that when something has gone awry. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 491

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Hume’s empiricism and the Sartre-Camus debate; a sharp intellectual lineage worth tracing.
• QUESTION: Is Sartre’s charge against Camus fair? Worth chasing the actual Humean influence on Camus’s absurdism.