Albert Camus and the philosophy of the ordinary / Raymond Boisvert.
| Author/creator | Boisvert, Raymond D. author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view book |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations: Works by Camus -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Camus: Unending Searcher -- Beyond Absurdism -- Philosophy as a Drawback -- Chapter 2: Defiant Humanism: Reflections on Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, I -- Inflated Expectations, Disappointed Realizations, I -- Nihilism: Facing Life without Religious or Scientific Faith -- Buridan's Ass -- Defiant Humanism -- The Great Bifurcation -- Absurd, or Just "Surd" -- Sisyphus as a Guiding Image |
| Contents | Chapter 3: Defiant Humanism in Question: Reflections on Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, II -- Inflated Expectations, Disappointed Realizations, II -- Irony, Not Absurdity -- Resisting Tidy-Mindedness -- Imagining Sisyphus Happy? -- Chapter 4: The Stranger -- The Stranger as a Reductio ad Absurdum -- Statues and Outsiders -- L'Étranger: Meursault as a Statue-Self -- Meursault and the Preconditions for Evil -- Authenticity and Society at Odds -- Chapter 5: The Plague -- Indifference Is Always an Option -- When Indifference Is Difficult to Assume -- The Problem of Good -- Saying Yes to the Ordinary |
| Contents | Seeking a Third Way -- Chapter 6: Reflections on The Rebel, I -- Beyond Boo-hurrah Ethics -- Indignant Man versus Absurd Man -- The Ascendancy of Nihilism -- Rehabilitating Human Nature, I -- Chapter 7: Reflections on The Rebel, II -- Sade as a Test Case -- Rehabilitating Human Nature, II -- Worries about an Overdone Plot -- Chapter 8: The Fall -- The Plate Glass of Indifference -- Moral Fallibilism Is Real -- Recapitulation: Building up to The Fall -- The Fall: Something Is Amiss -- Manipulanda, Indifference, Call and Response -- Judge-Penitent: Living in a Pan-prosecutorial World |
| Contents | Hints for a Paradigm Shift -- Chapter 9: Exile and the Kingdom, I: The Backward-Looking Stories -- "Better Sometimes to Remain Confused" -- Changing the Paradigm -- The Backward-Looking Stories: 1 -- The Backward-Looking Stories: 2 -- Saying "No" to Ordinary Life -- Chapter 10: Exile and the Kingdom, II: The Transitional Stories -- Liquidity and Minerality -- The Quotidian Almost Rehabilitated: 1 -- The Quotidian Almost Rehabilitated: 2 -- Chapter 11: Exile and the Kingdom, III: The Forward-Looking Stories -- Xenia and Agape -- Accepting the Responsibilities of Xenia -- Guest/Host Reciprocity |
| Contents | Rehabilitating the Ordinary -- Chapter 12: The First Man I, What Is "First"? -- A Work in Progress -- The "First," or the Father-of-Oneself Fantasy -- Being from Nothingness -- Relato, not Isolato -- Countering Nietzsche's "Last Man" -- From Nihilism to Pan-Semioticism -- Chapter 13: The First Man II, What Is Love? -- The Aporia of Love -- Love as Debt -- I am the Sum of My Affections -- Eros as Problematic -- What It All Means -- Chapter 14: Conclusion -- Literature Is Not the Handmaiden of Philosophy -- Philosophy without the Great Bifurcation -- Three (Potentially) Paradigm-Shifting Essays |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Issued in other form | Original 1350347914 9781350347915 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781350347946 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1350347949 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781350347922 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1350347922 electronic book |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Standard identifier# | 10.5040/9781350347946 |
| Stock number | 9781350347939 codeMantra |
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