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An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary politics of contempt and terrorisms

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Acknowledgments Note on the Texts and Abbreviations Introduction: An 'Untimely' Political Thought for Serious Times The Twentieth Century Politics of Contempt 'Undisguised Influences' Tragic Beginnings An Artist's Point of View Commencement of Freedom The Absurd and Power Conclusion: Between Sade and the Dandy Notes Bibliography Index

Albert Camus as Political Thinker Nihilisms and the Politics of Contempt

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/13/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780230240988, 978-0230240988
      ISBN10: 0230240984
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      Political science and theory Social and political philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary politics of contempt and terrorisms

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Note on the Texts and Abbreviations Introduction: An 'Untimely' Political Thought for Serious Times The Twentieth Century Politics of Contempt 'Undisguised Influences' Tragic Beginnings An Artist's Point of View Commencement of Freedom The Absurd and Power Conclusion: Between Sade and the Dandy Notes Bibliography Index

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