Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary
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2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34795-3 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34795-3 (ISBN)
The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical “absurdist” thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which he wrote The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus. By taking seriously how (1) Camus was always searching and (2) the rest of his corpus, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary corrects 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, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary, offers a new lens for thinking about the well-known author.
Raymond D. Boisvert is Professor of Philosophy at Siena College in Albany, New York. He is the author of I Eat: Therefore I Think (2014) and Philosophers at Table (2016).
Introdution: Albert Camus and the Rehabilitation of the Ordinary
Chapter 1. Defiant humanism--The Myth of Sisyphus I
Chapter 2. Defiant Humanism in question: The Myth of Sisyphus II
Chapter 3. The Stranger
Chapter4. The Plague
Chapter 5. The Rebel
Chapter 6. The Fall
Chapter 7. Exile and the Kingdom I: the backward-looking stories
Chapter 8. Exile and the Kingdom II: the transitional stories
Chapter 9. Exile and the Kingdom III: the forward-looking stories
Chapter 10. First Man I: What is “First?”
Chapter 11. The First Man II: What is Love?
Chapter 12. Conclusion
bibliography
index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-350-34795-7 / 1350347957 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-34795-3 / 9781350347953 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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