Camus (eBook)

The Author David Sherman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana at Missoula. He is the author of Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity (2007) and co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy (2003).

Acknowledgments viii

List of Abbreviations ix

Introduction: Situating Camus 1

1 Camus's Life 10

2 The Absurd 21

3 Life 56

4 Scorn 86

5 Solidarity 106

6 Rebellion 136

7 Realpolitik 173

8 Exile And Rebirth 194

9 Epilogue 207

Index 211

"Sherman's book provides an excellent account of Camus'
fortunes and misfortunes in the intellectual realm in France
immediately following the war." (Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews, April 2009)

"Sherman persuasively argues that what emerges from
Camus's writing is the portrait of a man of courage and
decency. Recommended to all academic libraries and university
foreign-language departments with strong French programs."
(Library Journal, February 2009)

"Despite Camus's own reluctance to be regarded as 'a philosopher'
and 'an existentialist', David Sherman's authoritative study
establishes the importance of Camus's contribution - in his
fiction as well as his essays - to existential philosophy.
Sherman's Camus is an engaging man of 'decency and courage', and a
great writer who eloquently articulated the modern human
predicament."

-Professor David Cooper, Durham University