It's been said that John Keats was 'The James Dean of Poets'. Not least because both Dean and the poet 'whose name was writ on water' died tragically young. But Keats has also been called 'The Poets' Poet'. Why?
For analogous reasons Camus has been called 'The James Dean of Philosophers'. Philosophy? Simply, questioning! The James Dean of Questioners.
Alive now, and in the moment. Aware and alert to their era, the historical moment that situates them in the wider context as an individual in society both broadly and narrowly, provincially and globally.
Ontological mavericks
Style plus depth.
Alive, not simply 'getting by' in the unspoken nihilistic 'cos 'tomorrow we die' sense.
