The Philosophy of Camus: Through a Kierkegaardian Lens

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Anthony Rudd (Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, St Olaf College)

The Philosophy of Camus

Through a Kierkegaardian Lens

Anthony Rudd (Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, St Olaf College)

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Oxford University Press
06 March 2025

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Ethics & moral philosophy

Although Albert Camus is recognised as an important novelist and political commentator, he is often still underrated as a philosopher. Camus' Philosophy, focussing on Camus' explicitly philosophical writings, provides a detailed examination of his intellectual development, and argues that his work constitutes a coherent, carefully argued meditation on central philosophical themes. A systematic comparison of Camus with Soren Kierkegaard provides an interpretive lens through which Camus' central philosophical concerns are brought into focus. Camus' three thematic ""cycles"" - dealing with Absurdity, Revolt and Love/Nemesis - are compared and contrasted with Kierkegaard's three ""stages of life"" - the aesthetic, ethical and religious. Anthony Rudd argues that the Absurd in Camus refers primarily to an experience of the world as lacking Meaning, in a broadly religious sense, which Camus sees as entailing a radical amoralism. Rudd compares this outlook to Kierkegaard's ""aestheticism"", before considering the reasons for Camus' eventual rejection of Absurdist amoralism for the ethical philosophy which Camus develops in The Rebel. Camus' Philosophy raises questions, in a Kierkegaardian spirit, about whether Camus' ethics can be viable without a fuller metaphysical background than he articulates in The Rebel. Rudd concludes by considering the continuing tension between Camus' affirmation of a Meaningful order in nature and his sensitivity to suffering and evil, looking at his account of tragedy and the apparent pessimism of his last published novel, The Fall.

By: Anthony Rudd (Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Associate Professor Emeritus of Philosophy St Olaf College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 462g
ISBN: 9780198924838
ISBN 10: 0198924836
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 06 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anthony Rudd studied philosophy at the Universities of Cambridge, St Andrews and Oxford before taking his PhD at Bristol. He retired recently from the Philosophy Department at St Olaf College, Minnesota, USA, having previously taught at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical (1993); Expressing the World: Skepticism, Wittgenstein and Heidegger (2003); Self, Value and Narrative: A Kierkegaardian Approach (2012) and Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter (2022) as well as numerous articles.