Camus and the challenge of political thought [electronic resource] : between despair and hope / Patrick Hayden.
2016
PQ2605.A3734 Z65969 2016eb
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Title
Camus and the challenge of political thought [electronic resource] : between despair and hope / Patrick Hayden.
ISBN
9781137525833 (electronic book)
1137525835 (electronic book)
9781349707317
9781137525826
1137525827
1137525835 (electronic book)
9781349707317
9781137525826
1137525827
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 142 pages).
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PQ2605.A3734 Z65969 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
848/.91409
Summary
"Albert Camus was a formative artist, writer and public figure whose work defies conventional labels, and whose legacy is controversial but substantial. His distinctive contribution to modern ethical and political thought remains far from settled. Camus and the Challenge of Political Thought comprehensively yet concisely explores how Camus's compelling ideas of absurdity and rebellion emerged, how his complex political engagements and positions developed, and how his conception of an ethics of limits and measure retains a vital, contemporary resonance in an era of unsettling global politics. Drawing upon the full range of Camus's notebooks, novels, plays and philosophical essays, Hayden shows Camus to be an original political thinker of human dignity and freedom whose life and work sought to navigate between the twin dangers of idealistic optimism and nihilistic despair"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index.
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Global political thinkers.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Situating Camus
2. Human Existence and the Tragic Beauty of the Absurd
3. Rebellion and an Ethics of Measure
4. Politics and the Limits of Violence
5. From Justice to Solidarity
6. Cosmopolitanism without Hope
Epilogue.
1. Situating Camus
2. Human Existence and the Tragic Beauty of the Absurd
3. Rebellion and an Ethics of Measure
4. Politics and the Limits of Violence
5. From Justice to Solidarity
6. Cosmopolitanism without Hope
Epilogue.