Brill's Companion to Camus Camus among the Philosophers

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Introduction: Camus as Philosopher amongst Philosophers
	1 An Outsider?
	2 Camus, Our Contemporary
	3 The Collection and the Literature(s)
	4 Looking Forwards
		4.1 Part 1: Thinkers and Dialogues
		4.2 Part 2: Themes
Part 1 Dialogues
	Chapter 1 Camus the Athenian: Philhellenism and Utopia in l’Homme révolté’s Relationship to Ancient Philosophy
		1 Camus’s Hellenic Cure
		2 Camus and the Greek Philosophers
		3 The Hellenic Utopia
		4 Nostalgia
	Chapter 2 “That Other North African”: Camus on Augustine and His Legacy
		1 “He seemed so cocksure, you see …”
		2 He Was Likely “dallying with heresy”
		3 “It’s a Real Madhouse”
	Chapter 3 Camus and the History of Modern Western Philosophy
		1 Historical Reason(s)
		2 Existential Reason(s)
			2.1 The Absurd
			2.2 Alienation
		3 Conclusion
	Chapter 4 Modern Rebellion, before the Terror: Reading Diderot after Camus
		1 Greek Moderation, Modern Rebellion
		2 Diderot: Eclecticism, Rebellion, and Limits
		3 Concluding Remarks on Philosophy and History
	Chapter 5 Albert Camus and Soren Kierkegaard
		1 Transmission
		2 Appearances
		3 Influences
	Chapter 6 Camus and Nietzsche: on the Slave Revolt in Morality
		1 Camus’ Diagnosis of Nietzsche’s Nihilism
			1.1 Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals: Ressentiment
		2 Camus’ Genealogy of Morals: Rebellion versus Ressentiment
	Chapter 7 Strangers in the Philosophical Night: Camus and Dostoevsky
		1 Making Room: Camus-Dostoevsky and the History of Philosophy
		2 Myshkin-Philosophe
		3 The Idiot and Rebellion
		4 Dostoevsky’s “Positive Failure”: Camus Reconciled
		5 Camus-Dostoevsky: the Future of a Relationship
	Chapter 8 Camus and Husserl and the Phenomenologists
		1 Introduction: Camus versus Husserl and the Phenomenologists
		2 Camus’s Critique of Husserl and Phenomenology
		3 A Response to Camus’s Critique of Husserl’s Phenomenology
		4 Limits of Camus’s Critique of Husserl’s Phenomenology
		5 Conclusion: Common Ground between Camus and Husserl
	Chapter 9 Camus and His Hegel(s)
		1 Introduction1
		2 Camus’s Early Sources for the Critique of Hegel
		3 Jean Wahl, Jean Hyppolite, and the Concept of History in Hegel
		4 Masters, Slaves, and the End of History
		5 Conclusion
	Chapter 10 Camus, Marxism and Communism
		1 Communist Activism and Early Writing
		2 Combat and “Our Communist Comrades”
		3 Breaking with “Our Comrades”
		4 Silence or Death?
			4.1 Neither Victims Nor Executioners
		5 Inconsistencies
		6 The Rebel: the Case against Marxism
		7 The Rebel: Ignoring Marxism
		8 Camus, Marxism, and Communism in Retrospect
	Chapter 11 Sartre and Camus: a Much-Misunderstood Relationship
Part 2 Themes
	Chapter 12 The Absurd
		1 Introduction1
		2 Absurd Reasoning, Absurd Feeling
		3 Morality from Meaninglessness
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 13 Mensch to Übermensch: Asceticism and the Ascetic Ideal in A Happy Death and The Stranger
		1 Asceticism
		2 The Ascetic Ideal
		3 The Übermensch
			3.1 A Happy Death
			3.2 The Stranger
			3.3 Phase One
			3.4 Phase Two
			3.5 Phase Three
	Chapter 14 Camus and Psychoanalysis
		1 Introduction
		2 Absurdity as a Rejection of Mourning
		3 The Rejection of Mourning as a Rejection of Meaning
		4 The Rejection of Meaning is a Rejection of Being
		5 Conclusion
	Chapter 15 The Tension between Solitude and Solidarity
		1 The Source
		2 A Review of Research on This Topic
		3 Solitude and Solidarity Separately
		4 Solitude and Solidarity Juxtaposed
		5 Solitude and Solidarity in Caligula35
		6 Toward a Typology of Caligulean Solitude
			6.1 The Position of the Summit
			6.2 A Hyper-Intelligence
			6.3 An Affective Isolation
			6.4 A Monstrous Tyranny
			6.5 The Deprivation of a Transcendent Remedy
		7 Solitude and Solidarity with Cherea
		8 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
	Chapter 16 Albert Camus on Revolt and Revolution
		1 The Critique of Revolution
		2 Reclaiming Rebellion
		3 Measure between Revolt and Revolution
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 17 Camus, Justice and the Challenges of History
	Chapter 18 “Ma vraie patrie”: Camus and Algeria
		1 Algeria in the 1930s
		2 Place: a Counter-Discourse
		3 Community in Le Premier homme
		4 The Mediterranean Alternative
	Chapter 19 Love, Ressentiment and Resistance: Albert Camus’ Phenomenology of Action
		1 The Artist as Phenomenologist
			1.1 Amor Mundi
		2 To the “heart” of Action
	Chapter 20 Hopeless Love: Camus and Le Premier Homme
		1 The Father’s Absence
		2 The Mother’s Silence
		3 Uncle Ernest/Étienne’s Violence
		4 The Schoolteacher’s Discipline
		5 The Friend’s Scepticism
		6 Life’s Despair
		7 The World’s Indifference
		8 Conclusion
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