{"product_id":"albert-camus-and-the-philosophy-of-the-ordinary-9781350347915","title":"Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical absurdist thinker.  Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which he wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of Sisyphus.\u003c\/i\u003e By taking seriously how (1) Camus was always searching and (2) the rest of his corpus,  \u003ci\u003eAlbert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary \u003c\/i\u003ecorrects 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, \u003ci\u003eAlbert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new lens for thinking about the well-known author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRay 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. \u003ci\u003eAlbert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntrodution: \u003ci\u003eAlbert Camus and the Rehabilitation of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e   Chapter 1. Defiant humanism--The \u003ci\u003eMyth of Sisyphus \u003c\/i\u003eI  Chapter 2.  Defiant Humanism in question: \u003ci\u003e The Myth of Sisyphus\u003c\/i\u003e II  Chapter 3. \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter4. The Plague  Chapter 5. \u003ci\u003eThe Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 6. \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 7. \u003ci\u003eExile and the Kingdom I: the backward-looking stories\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 8. \u003ci\u003eExile and the Kingdom II: the transitional stories\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 9. \u003ci\u003eExile and the Kingdom III: the forward-looking stories\u003c\/i\u003e  Chapter 10.  \u003ci\u003eFirst Man\u003c\/i\u003e I: What is “First?”  Chapter 11. \u003ci\u003eThe First Man \u003c\/i\u003eII: What is Love?  Chapter 12.  Conclusion  \u003ci\u003ebibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eindex \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019652792663,"sku":"9781350347915","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350347915.jpg?v=1750780916","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/albert-camus-and-the-philosophy-of-the-ordinary-9781350347915","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}