Overview

This book investigates whether Camus' ideal of living without conceptual absolutes is an attainable goal.

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Author:   Robert Trundle
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.419kg
ISBN:  

9781902210995

ISBN 10:   1902210999
Pages:   183
Publication Date:   01 January 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Experience of the Absurd; Logic that Reassures; The Absurdity of Existence; From Existential to Logical Absurdity; An Absurdity of Excessive Logic; Living Without an Excess of Logic; Disquietude that Cannot be Distilled; Maintaining a Tension of Existence; Existential Conflict; Conflict and Metaphysical Why; A Metaphysical Answer; Answers and Nostalgia for the Absolute; Camus' Own Revolt Against Absurdity; Absurdity in the Absence of Conflict?; Conflict and the Search for Meaning; The Meaning of Nothingness; Politeness and Politics; Politeness: The First Degree of Justice; Loving Abstract Humanity; A Contagion of Group Think; Self-Refuting Political Thought; Utopias Which Destroy Themselves; The Longing to be Free From Pain; A Politicised Existentialism; Flirtation and Revulsion; Intoxicating Paradoxes at a Cafe; From Paradox to Moral Anarchy; Ensuing Orthodoxies of Modernism; An Aftermath of Postmodernism; Rise of the Bourgeois Bohemians; A Mean Between Extremes; An Extremism of Success; Sacrifice to the Ever-Pressing They'; Bourgeois Anxiety and Existential Angst; Experience Defined Rationally; Contrast to an Eastern Position; Nostalgia for the Absolute; Quest for an Absolutist Epistemology; From Epistemology to Political Ideology; Rationalism Par Excellence; Independence of the World for Intelligibility; A Search for Intelligibility Ends in Paradox; A Paradox of the One over Many; From the Many to a Critique of Pure Reason; Reason and Absolutism in the Final Analysis; Need Reality Conform to Reason?; Psychological and Logical Thirst for Reality; Reality and Verbal Limitations; Limitations in terms of the Madhyamika; The Madhyamika and Misunderstanding; Misunderstanding an Eastern Existentialism; From the Existential to the Logical; Logical Consequences; Beyond the Conceptual and Linguistic; Index.

Reviews

A fine explanation of the various meanings of Camus' concept of the absurd. A useful introduction to Camus' thought. -- Choice.

Author Information

Robert Trundle is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of several books, including Beyond Absurdity: The Philosophy of Albert Camus.

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