{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-camus-through-a-kierkegaardian-lens-9780198924838","title":"The Philosophy of Camus: Through a Kierkegaardian Lens","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anthony Rudd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Albert Camus is recognised as an important novelist and political commentator, he is often still underrated as a philosopher. \u003cem\u003eCamus' Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCamus' 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eCamus' Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e raises questions, in a Kierkegaardian spirit, about whether Camus' ethics can be viable without a fuller metaphysical background than he articulates in \u003cem\u003eThe Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e. 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47813140545687,"sku":"9780198924838","price":11398.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198924838.webp?v=1778333854","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-philosophy-of-camus-through-a-kierkegaardian-lens-9780198924838","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}