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Heidegger as philosophical suicide?
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I'm reading through the Myth of Sisyphus, and Camus uses Heidegger as an example of philosophical suicide, saying

The consciousness of death is the call of anxiety and "existence then delivers itself its own summons through the intermediary of consciousness." It is the very voice of anguish and it adjures existence "to return from its loss in the anonymous They." For him, too, one must not sleep, but must keep alert until the consummation. He stands in this absurd world and points out its ephemeral character. He seeks his way amid these ruins.

How is this different from Camus' solution of a revolt against the absurd? If I'm understanding it correctly, Heidegger recognizes this anxiety, the absurd, and in it is able to find meaning: existence returns to subjectivity and isn't lost in the They. Camus' revolt involves being mindful of the absurd and living life in spite of it. They seem like really similar ideas, finding meaning by first recognizing its lack, then living it anyway. Am I misunderstanding or is Camus just a little hypocritical?

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