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@article{188654,
        author = {Dr. Rakesh Kumar Mishra},
        title = {The Glittering Void: Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus on Success as Existential Illusion},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {2564-2568},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=188654},
        abstract = {Modern life pushes people toward achievement with the same force that leaves them emotionally underfed. Society teaches us to accumulate titles, awards, applause until success becomes less a personal journey and more a public performance. This paper turns to Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus not to repeat their philosophy, but to hold today’s ambition against their sharper light. Nietzsche warns that when a person mirrors the world too perfectly, they forget to hear their own voice. Camus shows how the struggle itself becomes heavy when it serves nothing beyond repetition. Both thinkers quietly ask the same unsettling question: what if our triumphs are draining rather than filling us? The argument here does not grieve over emptiness; it studies its architecture. The glitter that surrounds modern success is fragile its shine comes from comparison, it’s worth from spectators, its meaning from outside rather than within. But the same collapse that shows how empty things are also meaningless opens a rare door. When applause stops working, a new rhythm starts: work chosen for its honesty, and goals set not by what others expect but by what you need. Nietzsche calls this self-legislation; Camus calls it defiance. Instead of running after recognition, both urge a return to self-authorship being accountable to one’s own becoming rather than to an impatient world. If there is heartbreak beneath achievement, it is because people are taught to win before they are taught to live. When the noise of ambition settles, what remains is not loss but the chance to rebuild purpose without imitation.},
        keywords = {imitation, purpose, achievement, force, awards, journey, performance},
        month = {December},
        }