Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity

by Matthew H. Bowker

In Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity, Matthew H. Bowker takes an interdisciplinary approach to Albert Camus' political philosophy by reading absurdity itself as a metaphor for the psychosocial dynamics of ambivalence, resistance, integration, and creativity. Decoupling absurdity from its ontological aspirations and focusing instead on its psychological and phenomenal contours, Bowker discovers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073918136X
• ISBN13: 9780739181362
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"