Brill's Companion to Camus Camus among the Philosophers (Brill's Companions to Philosophy / Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Contemporary Philosophy, 5)

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. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Camus as Philosopher amongst Philosophers 1 An Outsider? 2 Camus, Our Contemporary 3 The Collection and the Literature(s) 4 Looking Forwards 4.1 Part 1: Thinkers and Dialogues 4.2 Part 2: Themes Part 1 Dialogues Chapter 1 Camus the Athenian: Philhellenism and Utopia in l’Homme révolté’s Relationship to Ancient Philosophy 1 Camus’s Hellenic Cure 2 Camus and the Greek Philosophers 3 The Hellenic Utopia 4 Nostalgia Chapter 2 “That Other North African”: Camus on Augustine and His Legacy 1 “He seemed so cocksure, you see ...” 2 He Was Likely “dallying with heresy” 3 “It’s a Real Madhouse” Chapter 3 Camus and the History of Modern Western Philosophy 1 Historical Reason(s) 2 Existential Reason(s) 2.1 The Absurd 2.2 Alienation 3 Conclusion Chapter 4 Modern Rebellion, before the Terror: Reading Diderot after Camus 1 Greek Moderation, Modern Rebellion 2 Diderot: Eclecticism, Rebellion, and Limits 3 Concluding Remarks on Philosophy and History Chapter 5 Albert Camus and Soren Kierkegaard 1 Transmission 2 Appearances 3 Influences Chapter 6 Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality 1 Camus’ Diagnosis of Nietzsche’s Nihilism 1.1 Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals: Ressentiment 2 Camus’ Genealogy of Morals: Rebellion versus Ressentiment Chapter 7 Strangers in the Philosophical Night: Camus and Dostoevsky 1 Making Room: Camus-Dostoevsky and the History of Philosophy 2 Myshkin-Philosophe 3 The Idiot and Rebellion 4 Dostoevsky’s “Positive Failure”: Camus Reconciled 5 Camus-Dostoevsky: the Future of a Relationship Chapter 8 Camus and Husserl and the Phenomenologists 1 Introduction: Camus versus Husserl and the Phenomenologists 2 Camus’s Critique of Husserl and Phenomenology 3 A Response to Camus’s Critique of Husserl’s Phenomenology 4 Limits of Camus’s Critique of Husserl’s Phenomenology 5 Conclusion: Common Ground between Camus and Husserl Chapter 9 Camus and His Hegel(s) 1 Introduction1 2 Camus’s Early Sources for the Critique of Hegel 3 Jean Wahl, Jean Hyppolite, and the Concept of History in Hegel 4 Masters, Slaves, and the End of History 5 Conclusion Chapter 10 Camus, Marxism and Communism 1 Communist Activism and Early Writing 2 Combat and “Our Communist Comrades” 3 Breaking with “Our Comrades” 4 Silence or Death? 4.1 Neither Victims Nor Executioners 5 Inconsistencies 6 The Rebel: the Case against Marxism 7 The Rebel: Ignoring Marxism 8 Camus, Marxism, and Communism in Retrospect Chapter 11 Sartre and Camus: a Much-Misunderstood Relationship Part 2 Themes Chapter 12 The Absurd 1 Introduction1 2 Absurd Reasoning, Absurd Feeling 3 Morality from Meaninglessness 4 Conclusion Chapter 13 Mensch to Übermensch: Asceticism and the Ascetic Ideal in A Happy Death and The Stranger 1 Asceticism 2 The Ascetic Ideal 3 The Übermensch 3.1 A Happy Death 3.2 The Stranger 3.3 Phase One 3.4 Phase Two 3.5 Phase Three Chapter 14 Camus and Psychoanalysis 1 Introduction 2 Absurdity as a Rejection of Mourning 3 The Rejection of Mourning as a Rejection of Meaning 4 The Rejection of Meaning is a Rejection of Being 5 Conclusion Chapter 15 The Tension between Solitude and Solidarity 1 The Source 2 A Review of Research on This Topic 3 Solitude and Solidarity Separately 4 Solitude and Solidarity Juxtaposed 5 Solitude and Solidarity in Caligula35 6 Toward a Typology of Caligulean Solitude 6.1 The Position of the Summit 6.2 A Hyper-Intelligence 6.3 An Affective Isolation 6.4 A Monstrous Tyranny 6.5 The Deprivation of a Transcendent Remedy 7 Solitude and Solidarity with Cherea 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Chapter 16 Albert Camus on Revolt and Revolution 1 The Critique of Revolution 2 Reclaiming Rebellion 3 Measure between Revolt and Revolution 4 Conclusion Chapter 17 Camus, Justice and the Challenges of History Chapter 18 “Ma vraie patrie”: Camus and Algeria 1 Algeria in the 1930s 2 Place: a Counter-Discourse 3 Community in Le Premier homme 4 The Mediterranean Alternative Chapter 19 Love, Ressentiment and Resistance: Albert Camus’ Phenomenology of Action 1 The Artist as Phenomenologist 1.1 Amor Mundi 2 To the “heart” of Action Chapter 20 Hopeless Love: Camus and Le Premier Homme 1 The Father’s Absence 2 The Mother’s Silence 3 Uncle Ernest/Étienne’s Violence 4 The Schoolteacher’s Discipline 5 The Friend’s Scepticism 6 Life’s Despair 7 The World’s Indifference 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index 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 addresses 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) "It has become customary that scholarly works devoted to the study of Camus's philosophical thought begin with an apology. It is as if any treatment of this philosophy was still haunted by the necessity to protect the writer from overly critical opinions, stemming from the conviction that Camus was un philosophe pour classes terminales"-- Provided by publisher