Albert Camus as Political Thinker Nihilisms and the Politics of Contempt

by Novello, Samantha

• ISBN13: 9780230240988
• ISBN10: 0230240984
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An intensegenealogicalreconstruction of Camus#x19;s political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative,aestheticunderstanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporarypolitics of contemptand terrorisms

Author Biography

Samantha Novello is a teacher of Philosophy and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy. She is co-editor of the new edition of Albert Camus's complete works in the Bibliothque de la Pliade.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Note on the Texts and Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction: An 'Untimely' Political Thought for Serious Times	p. 1
The Twentieth-Century Politics of Contempt	p. 10
'Undisguised influences'	p. 19
Tragic Beginnings	p. 33
Mystic 'communion' with nature	p. 38
An Artist's Point of View	p. 58
Rethinking participation beyond political 'romanticism'	p. 63
A stranger to the world of ressentiment	p. 71
Commencement of Freedom	p. 81
Sisyphus or happiness in Hell	p. 86
Nothing is possible, everything is permitted	p. 92
The Absurd and Power	p. 109
Combat with nihilism	p. 122
Between Sade and the Dandy. Conclusion	p. 131
Notes	p. 148
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 186
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