Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction, Gloag Oliver

Автор: Westerhoff, Jan
Название: Reality: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199594414 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199594412
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 8350.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: `What is real?` has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. But it is not just a question that philosophers ask. This Very Short Introduction discusses what reality is by looking at a variety of arguments, theories, and thought-experiments from philosophy, physics, and cognitive science.

Автор: Kaplan Alice
Название: Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
ISBN: 022656536X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226565361
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 19010.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened to write perhaps the century`s most ubiquitous novel.

Автор: J. McBride
Название: Albert Camus
ISBN: 134960612X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349606122
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 55890.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book marks a major new reassessment of Camus`s writing investigating the nature and philosophical origins of Camus`s thinking on `authenticity` and `the absurd` as these notions are expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus and The Outsider.

Автор: Mumford Stephen
Название: Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199657122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199657124
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 8350.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: In this easy-to-understand introduction, Stephen Mumford explores one of the four main branches of philosophy: metaphysics. Using practical examples to explore the main issues, he presents the ideas in a clear and simple way, helping to clarify and unravel the basic questions of this complex and abstract concept.

Автор: Zaretsky Robert
Название: Albert Camus: Elements of a Life
ISBN: 080147907X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801479076
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Рейтинг:
Цена: 18290.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:

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.

Автор: Singer, Peter
Название: Marx: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198821077 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198821076
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 5630.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories about society, economics, and politics have shaped and directed political and social thought for 150 years. In this new edition, Peter Singer discusses the legacy and impact of Marx`s core theories, considering how they apply to twenty first century politics and society.

Автор: Martin Rodan
Название: Camus et l`antiquite
ISBN: 3034315260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034315265
Издательство: Peter Lang
Рейтинг:
Цена: 77490.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Camus ecrit dans ses Carnets : « Nous devons a l’antiquite le peu que nous valons. » En se referant aux vastes lectures et aux nombreux commentaires d’Albert Camus sur les ?uvres philosophiques et litteraires greco-latines et sur la Bible, ce livre entend montrer que l’antiquite constitue pour Camus le sol fertile dans lequel ses forces creatrices s’enracinent, le terreau ou son ?uvre prend corps : plus il s’inspire de l’antiquite, plus son ?uvre devient originale. Une analyse detaillee de ses ?uvres philosophiques (Noces, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, L’Homme Revolte) et litteraires (L’Etranger, L’Exil et le Royaume, La Chute), permet a l’auteur de cet ouvrage de reconsiderer les themes majeurs de la pensee de Camus comme le bonheur, l’absurde et la revolte, et d’apprehender sous un jour nouveau ses grands personnages litteraires, tels Meursault, Caligula, Janine ou Clamence.

Автор: Hayden, Professor Patrick
Название: Camus and the challenge of political thought
ISBN: 1137525827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137525826
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 53100.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book traces the compelling ethical and political ideas that unfold in the multifaceted work of Albert Camus, one of the twentieth century`s most provocative and influential figures, and explores their relevance for human existence in an unsettling world of global integration and fragmentation.

Название: Brill`s Companion to Camus: Camus among the Philosophers
ISBN: 9004401741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004401747
Издательство: Brill
Цена: 199240.00 T
Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is the first English-language collection of essays by leading Camus scholars from around the world to focus on Albert Camus’ place and status as a philosopher amongst philosophers. After a thematic introduction, the dedicated chapters of Part 1 address Camus’ relations with leading philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to Jean-Paul Sartre (Augustine, Hume, Kant, Diderot, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Hegel, Marx, Sartre). Part 2 contains pieces considering philosophical themes in Camus’ works, from the absurd in The Myth of Sisyphus to love in The First Man (the absurd, psychoanalysis, justice, Algeria, solidarity and solitude, revolution and revolt, art, asceticism, love).

Автор: Camus Albert
Название: Notebooks: Volume II, 1942-1951
ISBN: 1566638739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781566638739
Издательство: Неизвестно
Рейтинг:
Цена: 13670.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea. These three volumes, now available together for the first time in paperback, include all entries made from the time when Camus was still completely unknown in Europe, until he was killed in an automobile accident in 1960, at the height of his creative powers. In 1957 he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. A spiritual and intellectual autobiography, Camus' Notebooks are invariably more concerned with what he felt than with what he did. It is intriguing for the reader to watch him seize and develop certain themes and ideas, discard others that at first seemed promising, and explore different types of experience. Although the Notebooks may have served Camus as a practice ground, the prose is of superior quality, which makes a short spontaneous vignette or a moment of sensuous beauty quickly captured on the page a small work of art. Here is a record of one of the most unusual minds of our time.

Автор: Camus Albert
Название: Notebooks: Volume 1, 1935-1942
ISBN: 1566638720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781566638722
Издательство: Неизвестно
Рейтинг:
Цена: 11560.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art, and his appreciations for the Algerian sun and sea. These three volumes, now available together for the first time in paperback, include all entries made from the time when Camus was still completely unknown in Europe, until he was killed in an automobile accident in 1960, at the height of his creative powers. In 1957 he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. A spiritual and intellectual autobiography, Camus' Notebooks are invariably more concerned with what he felt than with what he did. It is intriguing for the reader to watch him seize and develop certain themes and ideas, discard others that at first seemed promising, and explore different types of experience. Although the Notebooks may have served Camus as a practice ground, the prose is of superior quality, which makes a short spontaneous vignette or a moment of sensuous beauty quickly captured on the page a small work of art. Here is a record of one of the most unusual minds of our time.

Автор: Kaplan Alice
Название: Looking for "The Stranger ": Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
ISBN: 022624167X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226241678
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 24290.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: "The Stranger" is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It s the rare novel that s as at likely to be found in a teen s backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. If the twentieth century produced a novel that could be called ubiquitous, "The Stranger" is it.
How did a young man in his twenties who had never written a novel turn out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than seventy years later? With "Looking for The Stranger ," Alice Kaplan tells that story. In the process, she reveals Camus s achievement to have been even more impressive and more unlikely than even his most devoted readers knew.
Born in poverty in colonial Algeria, Camus started out as a journalist covering the criminal courts. The murder trials he attended, Kaplan shows, would be a major influence on the development and themes of "The Stranger." She follows Camus to France, and, making deft use of his diaries and letters, re-creates his lonely struggle with the novel in Montmartre, where he finally hit upon the unforgettable first-person voice that enabled him to break through and complete "The Stranger."
Even then, the book s publication was far from certain. France was straining under German occupation, Camus s closest mentor was unsure of the book s merit, and Camus himself was suffering from near-fatal tuberculosis. Yet the book did appear, thanks in part to a resourceful publisher, Gaston Gallimard, who was undeterred by paper shortages and Nazi censorship.
The initial critical reception of "The Stranger "was mixed, and it wasn t until after liberation that "The Stranger" began its meteoric rise. As France and the rest of the world began to move out of the shadow of war, Kaplan shows, Camus s book with the help of an aggressive marketing campaign by Knopf for their 1946 publication of the first English translation became a critical and commercial success, and Camus found himself one of the most famous writers in the world. Suddenly, his seemingly modest tale of alienation was being seen for what it really was: a powerful parable of the absurd, an existentialist masterpiece.
Few books inspire devotion and excitement the way "The Stranger" does. And it couldn t have a better biographer than Alice Kaplan, whose books about twentieth-century French culture and history have won her legions of fans. No reader of Camus will want to miss this brilliant exploration.
"