An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary politics of contempt and terrorisms
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An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary politics of contempt and terrorisms
Les mer
Acknowledgments Note on the Texts and Abbreviations Introduction: An 'Untimely' Political Thought for Serious Times The Twentieth Century Politics of Contempt 'Undisguised Influences' Tragic Beginnings An Artist's Point of View Commencement of Freedom The Absurd and Power Conclusion: Between Sade and the Dandy Notes Bibliography Index
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ISBN
9780230240988
Publisert
2010-10-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

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 Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard)."