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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewRay Boisvert is among a growing group of scholars reading Camus with fresh eyes and a renewed concern for the central questions that animate his work.
Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary is a thought-provoking analysis of the modern crisis Camus sought to reckon with and overcome. * Ron Srigley, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Humber College, Canada *
Table of ContentsIntrodution:
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
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