Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary
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absurdism
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French thought
literary criticism
nihilism
philosophy of everyday life
philosophy of literature
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- ISBN 9781350347915
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 238 x 162mm
- Publication Date: 23 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Raymond D. Boisvert is Professor of Philosophy at Siena College in Albany, New York. He is the author of I Eat: Therefore I Think (2014) and Philosophers at Table (2016).
