Brill's Companion to Camus

Camus Among the Philosophers
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-40174-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 800 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Philosophy / Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Contemporary Philosophy

This book is the first English-language collection of essays by leading Camus scholars from around the world to focus on Albert Camus’ place and status as a philosopher amongst philosophers. After a thematic introduction, the dedicated chapters of Part 1 address Camus’ relations with leading philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to Jean-Paul Sartre (Augustine, Hume, Kant, Diderot, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Hegel, Marx, Sartre). Part 2 contains pieces considering philosophical themes in Camus’ works, from the absurd in The Myth of Sisyphus to love in The First Man (the absurd, psychoanalysis, justice, Algeria, solidarity and solitude, revolution and revolt, art, asceticism, love).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sharpe, Matthew

Kaluza, Maciej

Francev, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Maciej Kaluza, Peter Francev and Matthew Sharpe

Part 1

Dialogues

1 Camus the Athenian: Philhellenism and Utopia in l’Homme révolté’s Relationship to Ancient Philosophy

Luke Richardson

2 “That Other North African”: Camus on Augustine and His Legacy

Ronald Srigley

3 Camus and the History of Modern Western Philosophy

Kimberley Baltzer-Jaray

4 Modern Rebellion, before the Terror: Reading Diderot after Camus

Matthew Sharpe

5 Albert Camus and Soren Kierkegaard

Eric Berg

6 Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality

Michael Ure

7 Strangers in the Philosophical Night: Camus and Dostoevsky

Thomas Epstein

8 Camus and Husserl and the Phenomenologists

George Heffernan

9 Camus and His Hegel(s)

Maciej Kaluza

10 Camus, Marxism and Communism

Ronald Aronson

11 Sartre and Camus: a Much-Misunderstood Relationship

David Sprintzen

Part 2

Themes

12 The Absurd

Grace Whistler

13 Mensch to Übermensch: Asceticism and the Ascetic Ideal in A Happy Death and The Stranger

Simon Lea

14 Camus and Psychoanalysis

Matthew H. Bowker

15 The Tension between Solitude and Solidarity

Sophie Bastien

Translated by Jackson Doughart

16 Albert Camus on Revolt and Revolution

Patrick Hayden

17 Camus, Justice and the Challenges of History

Mark Orme

18 “Ma vraie patrie”: Camus and Algeria

Peter Dunwoodie

19 Love, Ressentiment and Resistance: Albert Camus’ Phenomenology of Action

Samantha Novello

20 Hopeless Love: Camus and Le Premier Homme

Marguerite La Caze

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Sharpe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings (Brill, 2015; paperback, 2016). Sharpe works at present on philosophy as a way of life, the philosophical bases of the re-emergent Far Right, and recovering the French Enlightenment philosophes.

Maciej Kaluza is a lecturer at Pedagogical University in Cracow and founder of the Polish Albert Camus Society. He authored two books focused on the philosophical complexities of the Camusian notions of the absurd and revolt (2016, 2017). He also edited the international collection From Absurd to Revolt. Dynamics in Albert Camus’ thought (2017).

Peter Francev is a lecturer at Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, where he teaches courses in literature and Albert Camus’ thought. He is president of the Albert Camus Society of the USA and editor of the Journal of Camus Studies. His other research interests include Phenomenology, Existentialism, and the poetry of Lord Byron.