Date: 2010
Type: Book
Albert Camus as political thinker : Nihilisms and the politics of contempt
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
NOVELLO, Samantha, Albert Camus as political thinker : Nihilisms and the politics of contempt, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/45484
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
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:
-- Introduction : an 'untimely' political thought for serious times
-- The twentieth-century politics of contempt
-- 'Undisguised influences'
-- Tragic beginnings mystic 'communion' with nature
-- An artist's point of view
-- Rethinking participation beyond 'romanticism'
-- A stranger to the world of ressentiment
-- Commencement of freedom
-- Sisyphus or happiness in hell
-- Nothing is possible, everything is permitted
-- The absurd and power
-- Combat with nihilism
-- Between Sade and the Dandy
-- Conclusion
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/45484
Full-text via DOI: 10.1057/9780230283244
ISBN: 9780230283244; 9780230240988; 9781349316717
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5339
Version: Partially based on EUI PhD thesis, 2005