Albert Camus as Political Thinker

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: An ‘Untimely’ Political Thought for Serious Times

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3. The Twentieth-Century Politics of Contempt

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4. ‘Undisguised influences’

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5. Tragic Beginnings

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6. An Artist’s Point of View

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7. Commencement of Freedom

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8. The Absurd and Power

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9. Between Sade and the Dandy

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10. Back Matter

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An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary politics of contempt and terrorisms

• 20th century
• bibliography
• construction
• freedom
• liberty
• nihilism
• philosophy
• political philosophy
• politics
• reconstruction
• Terrorism
• twentieth century
• understanding
• writing

• University of Torino, Italy

  Samantha Novello

SAMANTHA NOVELLO is a teacher of Philosophy and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy. She is co-editor of the new edition of Albert Camus's complete works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard)."

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