Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32841-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 907 g

Reihe: Social and Critical Theory

Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings is the first book on Camus to read Camus in light of, and critical dialogue with, subsequent French and European philosophy. It argues that, while not an academic philosopher, Albert Camus was a philosophe in more profound senses looking back to classical precedents, and the engaged French lumières of the 18th century. Aiming his essays and literary writings at the wider reading public, Camus’ criticism of the forms of ‘political theology’ enshrined in fascist and Stalinist regimes singles him out markedly from more recent theological and messianic turns in French thought. His defense of classical thought, turning around the notions of natural beauty, a limit, and mesure makes him a singularly relevant figure given today’s continuing debates about climate change, as well as the way forward for the post-Marxian Left.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharpe, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Existenzphilosophie, Lebensphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Camus, Philosophe?
Part I: Cave & Critique
Chapter One: Plague Power: Camus with and against the Critiques of Instrumental Reason
Chapter Two: Theodicy Now? Camus with and against the Secularisation Thesis
Part II: Turning Around, the Rough Ascent
Chapter Three: Between All or Nothing: Camus with and against the ‘Deconstruction of Western Metaphysics’
Chapter Four: From Revolution to Rebellion: Camus with and against the Theorists of Dialogic Ethics
Part III: Going Back Down
Chapter Five: Excluding Nothing: Camus’ NeoHellenic Philosophy of Mesure
Chapter Six: After the Fall, the First Man
Appendix One: L’Homme Révolté in 40 premises
Appendix Two: Camusian Mesure: Philosophe, Aesthetic, and Political
Appendix Three: Philosophy united to Rhetoric: the ‘Master Argument’ in “Letters to a German Friend”
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin University. He is the author of many articles, magazine pieces and book chapters on critical theory, psychoanalysis, modern receptions of ancient thought, and Camus’ work.