Albert Camus and the philosophy of the ordinary:
The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical "absurdist" thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which he wrote The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus. By taking seriously how (1) Camus was always searching and (2) the rest of his corpus, Albert C...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical "absurdist" thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at the stage at which he wrote The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus. By taking seriously how (1) Camus was always searching and (2) the rest of his corpus, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary corrects the one-sided, and thus faulty, depiction of Camus as committed to a philosophy of absurdism. His guiding project, which he explicitly acknowledged, was an attempt to get beyond nihilism, the general dismissal of value and meaning in ordinary life. Tracing this project via Camus's works, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary, offers a new lens for thinking about the well-known author |
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Contents Acknowledgments viii Abbreviations: Works by Camus 1 2 ix 1 Introduction Camus: Unending Searcher 1 Beyond Absurdism 4 Philosophy as a Drawback 6 Defiant Humanism: Reflections on Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, I 9 Inflated Expectations, Disappointed Realizations, I 3 11 Buridan’s Ass 12 Defiant Humanism 14 The Great Bifurcation 15 Absurd, or Just “Surd” 18 Sisyphus as a Guiding Image 19 Defiant Humanism in Question: Reflections on Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, II 4 5 9 Nihilism: Facing Life without Religious or Scientific Faith 23 Inflated Expectations, Disappointed Realizations, II 23 Irony, Not Absurdity 25 Resisting Tidy-Mindedness 29 Imagining Sisyphus Happy? 31 The Stranger 35 The Stranger as a Reductio ad Absurdum 35 Statues and Outsiders 38 L’Étranger: Meursault as a Statue-Self 41 Meursault and the Preconditions for Evil 43 Authenticity and Society at Odds 48 The Plague 51 Indifference Is Always an Option 51 When Indifference Is Difficult to Assume 55
6 7 8 9 The Problem of Good 56 Saying Yes to the Ordinary 60 Seeking a Third Way 63 Reflections on The Rebel, I 69 Beyond Boo-hurrah Ethics 69 Indignant Man versus Absurd Man 72 The Ascendancy of Nihilism 75 Rehabilitating Human Nature, I 77 Reflections on The Rebel, II 81 Sade as a Test Case 81 Rehabilitating Human Nature, II 83 Worries about an Overdone Plot 89 The Fall 95 The Plate Glass of Indifference 95 Moral Fallibilism Is Real 97 Recapitulation: Building up to The Fall 99 The Fall: Something Is Amiss 102 Manipulan da, Indifference, Call and Response 103 Judge-Penitent: Living in a Pan-prosecutorial World 105 Hints for a Paradigm Shift 108 Exile and the Kingdom, I: The Backward-Looking Stories 113 “Better Sometimes to Remain Confused” 113 Changing the Paradigm 116 The Backward-Looking Stories: 1 120 The Backward-Looking Stories: 2 123 Saying “No” to Ordinary Life 126 10 Exile and the Kingdom, II: The Transitional Stories 129 Liquidity and Minerality The Quotidian Almost Rehabilitated: 1 129 131 The Quotidian Almost Rehabilitated: 2 136 11 Exile and the Kingdom, III: The Forward-Looking Stories 143 Xenia and Agape 143 Accepting the Responsibilities of Xenia 145 Guest/Host Reciprocity 149 Rehabilitating the Ordinary 154
Contents 12 13 14 vii The First Man I, What Is “First”? 157 A Work in Progress 157 The “First,” or the Father-of-Oneself Fantasy 158 Being from Nothingness 162 Relato, not Isolato Countering Nietzsche’s “Last Man” 163 165 From Nihilism to Pan-Semioticism 167 The First Man II, What Is Love? 173 The Aporia of Love 173 Love as Debt 175 I am the Sum of My Affections 181 Eros as Problematic 183 What It All Means 186 Conclusion 189 Literature Is Not the Handmaiden of Philosophy 189 Philosophy without the Great Bifurcation 191 Three (Potentially) Paradigm-Shifting Essays 198 “The Enigma” 198 “Helen’s Exile” 200 “The Almond Trees” 203 Evaluating Camus 204 Notes 207 Bibliography 219 Index 229 |
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Contents Acknowledgments viii Abbreviations: Works by Camus 1 2 ix 1 Introduction Camus: Unending Searcher 1 Beyond Absurdism 4 Philosophy as a Drawback 6 Defiant Humanism: Reflections on Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, I 9 Inflated Expectations, Disappointed Realizations, I 3 11 Buridan’s Ass 12 Defiant Humanism 14 The Great Bifurcation 15 Absurd, or Just “Surd” 18 Sisyphus as a Guiding Image 19 Defiant Humanism in Question: Reflections on Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, II 4 5 9 Nihilism: Facing Life without Religious or Scientific Faith 23 Inflated Expectations, Disappointed Realizations, II 23 Irony, Not Absurdity 25 Resisting Tidy-Mindedness 29 Imagining Sisyphus Happy? 31 The Stranger 35 The Stranger as a Reductio ad Absurdum 35 Statues and Outsiders 38 L’Étranger: Meursault as a Statue-Self 41 Meursault and the Preconditions for Evil 43 Authenticity and Society at Odds 48 The Plague 51 Indifference Is Always an Option 51 When Indifference Is Difficult to Assume 55
6 7 8 9 The Problem of Good 56 Saying Yes to the Ordinary 60 Seeking a Third Way 63 Reflections on The Rebel, I 69 Beyond Boo-hurrah Ethics 69 Indignant Man versus Absurd Man 72 The Ascendancy of Nihilism 75 Rehabilitating Human Nature, I 77 Reflections on The Rebel, II 81 Sade as a Test Case 81 Rehabilitating Human Nature, II 83 Worries about an Overdone Plot 89 The Fall 95 The Plate Glass of Indifference 95 Moral Fallibilism Is Real 97 Recapitulation: Building up to The Fall 99 The Fall: Something Is Amiss 102 Manipulan da, Indifference, Call and Response 103 Judge-Penitent: Living in a Pan-prosecutorial World 105 Hints for a Paradigm Shift 108 Exile and the Kingdom, I: The Backward-Looking Stories 113 “Better Sometimes to Remain Confused” 113 Changing the Paradigm 116 The Backward-Looking Stories: 1 120 The Backward-Looking Stories: 2 123 Saying “No” to Ordinary Life 126 10 Exile and the Kingdom, II: The Transitional Stories 129 Liquidity and Minerality The Quotidian Almost Rehabilitated: 1 129 131 The Quotidian Almost Rehabilitated: 2 136 11 Exile and the Kingdom, III: The Forward-Looking Stories 143 Xenia and Agape 143 Accepting the Responsibilities of Xenia 145 Guest/Host Reciprocity 149 Rehabilitating the Ordinary 154
Contents 12 13 14 vii The First Man I, What Is “First”? 157 A Work in Progress 157 The “First,” or the Father-of-Oneself Fantasy 158 Being from Nothingness 162 Relato, not Isolato Countering Nietzsche’s “Last Man” 163 165 From Nihilism to Pan-Semioticism 167 The First Man II, What Is Love? 173 The Aporia of Love 173 Love as Debt 175 I am the Sum of My Affections 181 Eros as Problematic 183 What It All Means 186 Conclusion 189 Literature Is Not the Handmaiden of Philosophy 189 Philosophy without the Great Bifurcation 191 Three (Potentially) Paradigm-Shifting Essays 198 “The Enigma” 198 “Helen’s Exile” 200 “The Almond Trees” 203 Evaluating Camus 204 Notes 207 Bibliography 219 Index 229 |
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