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Albert Camus : een leven tegen de leugen
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ISBN: 9050183514 Year: 1997 Publisher: Amsterdam Balans


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Albert Camus : analyse de sa pensée
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ISBN: 2827101068 2252018569 9782827101061 Year: 1976 Volume: 22 Publisher: Fribourg Ed. universitaires

Avec Camus : comment résister à l'air du temps
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ISBN: 2070781933 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris Gallimard-nrf


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Camus, philosophe
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ISBN: 9789004302334 9789004302341 9004302344 9004302336 9004302336 Year: 2015 Volume: 18 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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Camus, Philosophe: To Return to our Beginnings is the first book on Camus to read Camus in light of, and critical dialogue with, subsequent French and European philosophy. It argues that, while not an academic philosopher, Albert Camus was a philosophe in more profound senses looking back to classical precedents, and the engaged French lumières of the 18th century. Aiming his essays and literary writings at the wider reading public, Camus’ criticism of the forms of ‘political theology’ enshrined in fascist and Stalinist regimes singles him out markedly from more recent theological and messianic turns in French thought. His defense of classical thought, turning around the notions of natural beauty, a limit, and mesure makes him a singularly relevant figure given today’s continuing debates about climate change, as well as the way forward for the post-Marxian Left. This book is also available in paperback.


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Lire les Carnets d'Albert Camus

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Albert Camus a vingt-deux ans quand il commence à écrire régulièrement dans ses « Cahiers » ; il ne cessera pas jusqu’à sa mort. Il en préparait alors la publication ; elle sera posthume, sous le titre de Carnets. Ces textes, aussi inclassables que divers (laboratoire de l’œuvre, « choses vues », notes de lectures, impressions de voyages, réflexions philosophiques et, de plus en plus vers la fin de sa vie, notations intimes) sont souvent cités ; ils n’avaient jamais été étudiés en tant que tels. Ils le sont ici, par des chercheurs d’horizons divers, qui interrogent les modalités et les enjeux de cette écriture très spécifique. Les Carnets prennent ainsi toute leur place dans l’œuvre camusienne, dont ils mettent au jour les ressorts secrets. Au cœur de cette écriture fragmentaire, l’exigence artistique de Camus est aussi manifeste qu’ailleurs ; et c’est à ses Carnets qu’en 1937 - il a alors vingt-quatre ans - il confie sa certitude, qui ne se démentira pas : « Écrire, ma joie profonde ! ». Lire les Carnets se révèle indispensable pour qui veut vraiment connaître Camus...

Albert Camus, the Algerian
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ISBN: 1281927805 9786613792785 0231511760 9780231511766 0231140878 9780231140874 023114086X 9780231140867 0231140878 9780231140874 9781281927804 6613792780 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle of terrorism and counterterrorism that characterized the Algerian War and continues to surface in the devastation of postcolonial wars today. During France's "dirty war" in Algeria, Camus called for an end to the violence perpetrated against civilians by both France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) and supported the creation of a postcolonial, multicultural, and democratic Algeria. His position was rejected by most of his contemporaries on the Left and has, ironically, earned him the title of colonialist sympathizer as well as the scorn of important postcolonial critics. Carroll rescues Camus' work from such criticism by emphasizing the Algerian dimensions of his literary and philosophical texts and by highlighting in his novels and short stories his understanding of both the injustice of colonialism and the tragic nature of Algeria's struggle for independence. By refusing to accept that the sacrifice of innocent human lives can ever be justified, even in the pursuit of noble political goals, and by rejecting simple, ideological binaries (West vs. East, Christian vs. Muslim, "us" vs. "them," good vs. evil), Camus' work offers an alternative to the stark choices that characterized his troubled times and continue to define our own. "What they didn't like, was the Algerian, in him," Camus wrote of his fictional double in The First Man. Not only should "the Algerian" in Camus be "liked," Carroll argues, but the Algerian dimensions of his literary and political texts constitute a crucial part of their continuing interest. Carroll's reading also shows why Camus' critical perspective has much to contribute to contemporary debates stemming from the global "war on terror."


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Camus' imperial vision
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ISBN: 058518643X 9780585186436 0809310023 9780809310029 Year: 1981 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,


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Camus : love and sexuality
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ISBN: 0813023874 9780813023878 Year: 1998 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,


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Albert Camus
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ISBN: 0801462371 0801460298 9780801460296 9780801448058 0801448050 080147907X 9780801462375 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes that I have taught, coming out of them with a renewed appreciation of his art. To be sure, my idea of Camus thirty years ago scarcely resembles my idea of him today. While my admiration and attachment to his writings remain as great as they were long ago, the reasons are more complicated and critical."-Robert Zaretsky On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small restaurant on Paris's Left Bank when a waiter approached him with news: the radio had just announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus insisted that a mistake had been made and that others were far more deserving of the honor than he. Yet Camus was already recognized around the world as the voice of a generation-a status he had achieved with dizzying speed. He published his first novel, The Stranger, in 1942 and emerged from the war as the spokesperson for the Resistance and, although he consistently rejected the label, for existentialism. Subsequent works of fiction (including the novels The Plague and The Fall), philosophy (notably, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel), drama, and social criticism secured his literary and intellectual reputation. And then on January 4, 1960, three years after accepting the Nobel Prize, he was killed in a car accident. In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus's development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man. Each chapter is devoted to a specific event: Camus's visit to Kabylia in 1939 to report on the conditions of the local Berber tribes; his decision in 1945 to sign a petition to commute the death sentence of collaborationist writer Robert Brasillach; his famous quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre in 1952 over the nature of communism; and his silence about the war in Algeria in 1956. Both engaged and engaging, Albert Camus: Elements of a Life is a searching companion to a profoundly moral and lucid writer whose works provide a guide for those perplexed by the absurdity of the human condition and the world's resistance to meaning.

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