Albert Camus and the philosophy of the ordinary / Raymond Boisvert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boisvert, Raymond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and humanism.

Phenomenology and literature.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

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..

Contents:

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 .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350347939

1350347930

9781350347946

1350347949

9781350347922

1350347922

OCLC:

1368205176