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Levinas and Camus

Author : Tal Sessler
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441195734
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Levinas and Camus written by Tal Sessler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book compares the respective oeuvre of two seminal thinkers of the 20th century, Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus. Tal Sessler compares their lasting legacies within the specific context of intellectual resistance to totalitarianism and political violence, with particular focus on their respective approaches to the Holocaust and genocide in the 20th century and, correspondingly, the question of theodicy and religious faith. Levinas and Camus explores each thinker's congruent and complimentary metaphysical and political rationale in opposing tyranny. Sessler emphasises the religious component in Levinas's depiction of Hitlerism as paganism (a perception that Camus shares), and the correlation between liberalism and monotheism. The book explores Levinas and Camus's reflections on the Holocaust and the question of theodicy and deals with their corresponding critiques of Stalinism and Hegelian philosophy of history. Sessler goes on to consider how Levinas and Camus would have contended with the central political issue of our own era, religious fundamentalism, and explicates the dualist nature of Israel and Algeria in the writings of Levinas and Camus.

Camus, Philosophe

Author : Matthew Sharpe
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004302344
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Camus, Philosophe written by Matthew Sharpe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camus, Philosophe: To Return to our Beginnings is the first book on Camus to read Camus in light of, and critical dialogue with, subsequent French and European philosophy. It argues that, while not an academic philosopher, Albert Camus was a philosophe in more profound senses looking back to classical precedents, and the engaged French lumières of the 18th century. Aiming his essays and literary writings at the wider reading public, Camus’ criticism of the forms of ‘political theology’ enshrined in fascist and Stalinist regimes singles him out markedly from more recent theological and messianic turns in French thought. His defense of classical thought, turning around the notions of natural beauty, a limit, and mesure makes him a singularly relevant figure given today’s continuing debates about climate change, as well as the way forward for the post-Marxian Left.

Education, Ethics and Existence

Author : Peter Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317527224
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Education, Ethics and Existence written by Peter Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known today for his novels, plays and short stories, but also an accomplished essayist, editor and journalist, Albert Camus was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. He has gained widespread recognition for works such as The Stranger, Caligula, The Plague and Exile and the Kingdom. In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1960 he was killed in a car accident, aged just 46. Since Camus’ untimely death, his work has been engaged by scholars in literature, politics, philosophy and many other fields. This volume is one of the first book-length studies of Camus with a specifically educational focus. Camus’ writings raise and address ethical and political questions that resonate strongly with current concerns and debates in educational theory, and the difficulties and dilemmas faced by his characters mirror those encountered by many teachers in school classrooms. This book will appeal to all who wish to consider the connections between education, ethics and the problem of human existence. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy & Theory.

Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity

Author : Matthew H. Bowker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317975111
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity written by Matthew H. Bowker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts and terrors of the mid- to late-twentieth century? Is it possible to understand absurdity not as a feature of events, but as a psychological posture or stance? If so, what are the objectives, dynamics, and repercussions of the absurd stance? And in what ways has the absurd stance continued to shape postmodern thought and contemporary culture? In Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. In the last century, he argues, fears about subjects’ destructive desires have combined with fears about rationality in a way that has made the absurd stance seem attractive. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Weaving together analyses of the work of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas, and others with interview data and popular narratives of apocalypse and survival, Bowker shows that the absurd stance and the postmodern revolt invite a kind of bargain, in which meaning is sacrificed in exchange for the survival of innocence. Bowker asks us to consider that the very premise of this bargain is false: that ethical subjects and healthy communities cannot be created in absurdity. Instead, we must make meaningful even the most shocking losses, terrors, and destructive powers with which we live. Bowker's book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies.

Between Transcendent and Immanent Humanism

Author : Tal Sessler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Between Transcendent and Immanent Humanism written by Tal Sessler and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating Albert Camus

Author : Brent C. Sleasman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161147888X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Creating Albert Camus written by Brent C. Sleasman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection come from disparate fields such as theology, literature studies, political science, and communication studies and are guided by a commitment to consider what we can learn from Camus as opposed to where he was wrong or misguided in his life and writing. If there is a place to consider the shortcomings of a human being, especially one as unique as Albert Camus, it will not be found within this volume. The essays in this text are built around the theme that Albert Camus functions as an implicit philosopher of communication with deep ethical commitments. The title, Creating Albert Camus, is intended to have a double meaning. First are those voices who inspired Camus and helped create his ideas; second are those scholars working with Camus’s thoughts during and after his life who help create his enduring legacy. Bringing together scholars who embrace an appreciation of the philosophy of communication provide an opportunity to further situate the work of Camus within the communication discipline. This new project explores the communicative implications of Camus’s work.

Levinasian Ethics and the Works of Albert Camus

Author : Elizabeth J. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Levinasian Ethics and the Works of Albert Camus written by Elizabeth J. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Origins of the Other

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801443947
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Other written by Samuel Moyn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Origins of the Other, Moyn offers new readings of the work of a host of crucial thinkers, such as Hannah Arendt, Karl Barth, Karl Lowith, Gabriel Marcel, Franz Rosenzweig, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jean Wahl, who help explain why Levinas's thought evolved as it did."--Jacket.

Albert Camus

Author : J. McBride
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137073934
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Albert Camus written by J. McBride and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks a major new reassessment of Camus's writing investigating the nature and philosophical origins of Camus's thinking on 'authenticity' and 'the absurd' as these notions are expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus and The Outsider. It shows that these books are the product not only of a literary figure, but of a genuine philosopher as well. Moreover, McBride provides a complete English-language translation of Camus's Mtaphysique chrtienne et Noplatonisme and underlines the importance of this study for the understanding of the early Camus.

Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences

Author : William L. McBride
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135632103
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences by : William L. McBride

Download or read book Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences written by William L. McBride and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sartre's French Contemporaries and Enduring Influences This final volume examines Sartre's best-known philosophical contemporaries in France-Albert Camus, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir-in terms of both their own philosophical insights and their relationship to Sartre's thought. The articles also offer some suggestive connections between Sartre's thought and subsequent developments in European philosophy, notably structuralism, poststructuralism, and postmodernism. The comparatively recent nature of much of this scholarship is solid testimony to the enduring influence of Sartrean existentialism.

Welcoming the Other

Author : N. Susan Laehn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793631212
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Welcoming the Other written by N. Susan Laehn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern turn in political philosophy established the ontological primacy of the ego, reducing the community to a mere assemblage of individuals, and led to the repudiation of natural duties in favor of inherent individual rights. The modern project culminated in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose emphasis on radical individuation left human beings both liberated and exiled. Individuals were free to create (and to recreate) themselves anew, but they were simultaneously uprooted from any larger community. Indeed, the very possibility of shared meaning, let alone shared political life, was called into question. This volume consists of essays addressing the efforts of philosophers, artists, caretakers, and—perhaps most importantly—teachers to reestablish a foundation for political life in postmodernity. The origins of these efforts are diverse, and their modes are varied. Individuals seek communion with the divine, either with or through others; they pursue friendship among strangers; and they search for meaningful relationships in both the classroom and the public square. Reflecting the various means by which individuals seek communion with others and with the transcendent, divine Other, the essays contained in this volume explore the modes through which individuals forge relationships with others in an age of isolation.

Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas

Author : John Llewelyn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253340184
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas written by John Llewelyn and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If not simple opposition or simple juxtaposition, what is the relation between the writings to which Derrida and Levinas appose their signatures? What would each endorse in the writings of the other? What is it to sign and endorse? How does one assume responsibility, and how does one avoid assuming it? These are some of the probing questions that the prominent Continental philosopher John Llewelyn takes up in Appositions, which brings together and synthesises fifteen essays written during the past twenty years. Drawing out the metaphor of the Greek letter chi, or "x," Llewelyn apposes the discussions of the two philosophers, applying their thought to one another. In considering the work of Derrida and Levinas from the points of view of philosophy, linguistics, logic, and theology, Llewelyn invokes a diverse array of philosophers, theologians, and literary figures, including Austin, Defoe, Hegel, Heidegger, Jankelevitch, Kant, Mallarme, Plato, Ponge, Ramsey, Rosenzweig, Russell, Saussure, and Valery. This book by a powerfully original thinker and first-rate interpreter is essential reading for all those interested in the writings of Derrida and Levinas and in the ways in which their thinking intersects.

Brill's Companion to Camus

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004419241
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Camus written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first English-language collection of essays by leading Camus scholars around the world to focus on Albert Camus’ place and status as a philosopher amongst philosophers, engaging with leading Western thinkers, and considering themes of enduring interest.

Ethics and Infinity

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789715012102
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Infinity written by Emmanuel Lévinas and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility

Author : Cynthia D. Coe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253031982
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility by : Cynthia D. Coe

Download or read book Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility written by Cynthia D. Coe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levinas's account of responsibility challenges dominant notions of time, autonomy, and subjectivity according to Cynthia D. Coe. Employing the concept of trauma in Levinas's late writings, Coe draws together his understanding of time and his claim that responsibility is an obligation to the other that cannot be anticipated or warded off. Tracing the broad significance of these ideas, Coe shows how Levinas revises our notions of moral agency, knowledge, and embodiment. Her focus on time brings a new interpretive lens to Levinas's work and reflects on a wider discussion of the fragmentation of human experience as an ethical subject. Coe's understanding of trauma and time offers a new appreciation of how Levinas can inform debates about gender, race, mortality, and animality.

The Ethical Pragmatism of Albert Camus

Author : Dean Vasil
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Pragmatism of Albert Camus written by Dean Vasil and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what, since the age of its Enlightenment, the West has perceived to be an absurd universe, it has had continually to choose between two ways of life as consequences of that perception and of the movement which gave it rise: these are the way of ethics and the way of modern historicist ideology, the way of a moral imperative without God and that of the will to become God in His place. The first is illogical, but the second is irrational, «la prédication de la surhumanité, » as Camus says, «aboutissant à la fabrication méthodique des sous-hommes.» The way of ethics or of man as an end in himself is the way of Camus as well, and one the reflection of whose origins and raison d'être in his own thought is the subject of the two studies in the present essay.

Coming Back to the Absurd: Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus: 80 Years On

Author : Peter Francev
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004526765
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Coming Back to the Absurd: Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus: 80 Years On written by Peter Francev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the importance and significance of The Myth of Sisyphus, this collection of essays, from some of the world’s leading Camus scholars, examines the impact on philosophy that Camus’s The Myth has had in the past 80 years.