Brill's Companion to Camus Camus among the Philosophers

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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