Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

by Raymond D. Boisvert

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350347914
• ISBN13: 9781350347915
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"