Albert Camus as political thinker
Subtitle: nihilisms and the politics of contempt
By: Samantha Novello
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780230240988
Subjects: Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Nihilism (Philosophy); Political science; Political and social views
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an 'untimely' political thought for serious times; title: The twentieth-century politics of contempt; title: 'Undisguised influences'; title: Tragic beginnings mystic 'communion' with nature; title: An artist's point of view; title: Rethinking participation beyond 'romanticism'; title: A stranger to the world of ressentiment; title: Commencement of freedom; title: Sisyphus or happiness in hell; title: Nothing is possible, everything is permitted; title: The absurd and power; title: Combat with nihilism; title: Between Sade and the Dandy; title: Conclusion.