Futile Political Gestures: Introduction: Futile Political Gestures*

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

In 1942, Albert Camus, a French existential philosopher, produced a study of the Greek myth of Sisyphus (Camus, 2005). Sisyphus was ordered to push a boulder to the top of a mountain where the stone would slip and roll down. Sisyphus’s curse was to repeat his futile, absurd ascent in perpetuity. Surprisingly, Albert Camus hasRead more