What can these celebrated philosophers teach us about modern living?

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Here's what Melville, Nietzsche and Camus thought. Image: REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

Michael Hauskeller

Professor of Philosophy, Head of Department, University of Liverpool

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Friedrich Nietzsche: ‘God is dead’. Image: Gustav Adolf Schultze via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

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