Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary - Raymond D. Boisvert

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34791-5 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-350-34791-4 / 1350347914
ISBN-13 978-1-350-34791-5 / 9781350347915
Zustand Neuware
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