The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical absurdist thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which he wrote iThe Stranger iand iThe Myth of Sisyphus.i By taking seriously how 1 Camus was always searching and 2 the rest of his corpus, iAlbert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary icorrects the one-sided, and thus faulty, depiction of Camus as committed to a philosophy of absurdism. His guiding project, which he explicitly acknowledged, was an attempt to get beyond nihilism, the general dismissal of value and meaning in ordinary life. Tracing this project via Camus's works, iAlbert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinaryii, i offers a new lens for thinking about the well-known author.