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Brill's Companion to Camus
Camus among the Philosophers
Series:
This book is the first English-language collection of essays by leading Camus scholars from around the world to focus on Albert Camusâ place and status as a philosopher amongst philosophers. After a thematic introduction, the dedicated chapters of Part 1 address Camusâ 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 Camusâ 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).
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 KaÅuża 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 Camusâ thought (2017).
Peter Francev is a lecturer at Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, where he teaches courses in literature and Albert Camusâ 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.
Maciej KaÅuża 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 Camusâ thought (2017).
Peter Francev is a lecturer at Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, where he teaches courses in literature and Albert Camusâ 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.
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âMaciej KaÅuża, Peter Francev and Matthew Sharpe
Part 1
Dialogues
1 Camus the Athenian: Philhellenism and Utopia in lâHomme révoltéâs Relationship to Ancient Philosophy
âLuke Richardson
2 âThat Other North Africanâ: Camus on Augustine and His Legacy
âRonald Srigley
3 Camus and the History of Modern Western Philosophy
âKimberley Baltzer-Jaray
4 Modern Rebellion, before the Terror: Reading Diderot after Camus
âMatthew Sharpe
5 Albert Camus and Soren Kierkegaard
âEric Berg
6 Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality
âMichael Ure
7 Strangers in the Philosophical Night: Camus and Dostoevsky
âThomas Epstein
8 Camus and Husserl and the Phenomenologists
âGeorge Heffernan
9 Camus and His Hegel(s)
âMaciej KaÅuża
10 Camus, Marxism and Communism
âRonald Aronson
11 Sartre and Camus: a Much-Misunderstood Relationship
âDavid Sprintzen
Part 2
Themes
12 The Absurd
âGrace Whistler
13 Mensch to Ãbermensch: Asceticism and the Ascetic Ideal in A Happy Death and The Stranger
âSimon Lea
14 Camus and Psychoanalysis
âMatthew H. Bowker
15 The Tension between Solitude and Solidarity
âSophie Bastien
âTranslated by Jackson Doughart
16 Albert Camus on Revolt and Revolution
âPatrick Hayden
17 Camus, Justice and the Challenges of History
âMark Orme
18 âMa vraie patrieâ: Camus and Algeria
âPeter Dunwoodie
19 Love, Ressentiment and Resistance: Albert Camusâ Phenomenology of Action
âSamantha Novello
20 Hopeless Love: Camus and Le Premier Homme
âMarguerite La Caze
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âMaciej KaÅuża, Peter Francev and Matthew Sharpe
Part 1
Dialogues
1 Camus the Athenian: Philhellenism and Utopia in lâHomme révoltéâs Relationship to Ancient Philosophy
âLuke Richardson
2 âThat Other North Africanâ: Camus on Augustine and His Legacy
âRonald Srigley
3 Camus and the History of Modern Western Philosophy
âKimberley Baltzer-Jaray
4 Modern Rebellion, before the Terror: Reading Diderot after Camus
âMatthew Sharpe
5 Albert Camus and Soren Kierkegaard
âEric Berg
6 Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality
âMichael Ure
7 Strangers in the Philosophical Night: Camus and Dostoevsky
âThomas Epstein
8 Camus and Husserl and the Phenomenologists
âGeorge Heffernan
9 Camus and His Hegel(s)
âMaciej KaÅuża
10 Camus, Marxism and Communism
âRonald Aronson
11 Sartre and Camus: a Much-Misunderstood Relationship
âDavid Sprintzen
Part 2
Themes
12 The Absurd
âGrace Whistler
13 Mensch to Ãbermensch: Asceticism and the Ascetic Ideal in A Happy Death and The Stranger
âSimon Lea
14 Camus and Psychoanalysis
âMatthew H. Bowker
15 The Tension between Solitude and Solidarity
âSophie Bastien
âTranslated by Jackson Doughart
16 Albert Camus on Revolt and Revolution
âPatrick Hayden
17 Camus, Justice and the Challenges of History
âMark Orme
18 âMa vraie patrieâ: Camus and Algeria
âPeter Dunwoodie
19 Love, Ressentiment and Resistance: Albert Camusâ Phenomenology of Action
âSamantha Novello
20 Hopeless Love: Camus and Le Premier Homme
âMarguerite La Caze
Bibliography
Index
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