Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

Raymond D. Boisvert (Siena College, USA)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
19 September 2024

Literary theory; Phenomenology & Existentialism; History of ideas

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.

By: Raymond D. Boisvert (Siena College USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350347953
ISBN 10: 1350347957
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 19 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introdution: Albert Camus and the Rehabilitation of the Ordinary Chapter 1. Defiant humanism--The Myth of Sisyphus I Chapter 2. Defiant Humanism in question: The Myth of Sisyphus II Chapter 3. The Stranger Chapter4. The Plague Chapter 5. The Rebel Chapter 6. The Fall Chapter 7. Exile and the Kingdom I: the backward-looking stories Chapter 8. Exile and the Kingdom II: the transitional stories Chapter 9. Exile and the Kingdom III: the forward-looking stories Chapter 10. First Man I: What is “First?” Chapter 11. The First Man II: What is Love? Chapter 12. Conclusion bibliography index

Raymond D. Boisvert is Professor of Philosophy at Siena College in Albany, New York. He is the author of I Eat: Therefore I Think (2014) and Philosophers at Table (2016).

Reviews for Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

"""Ray Boisvert is among a growing group of scholars reading Camus with fresh eyes and a renewed concern for the central questions that animate his work. Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary is a thought-provoking analysis of the modern crisis Camus sought to reckon with and overcome."" --Ron Srigley, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Humber College, Canada"