Coming Back to the Absurd: Albert Camus's the Myth of Sisyphus 80 Years on (Value Inquiry Book / Studies in Existentialism, Hermeneutics, and Phenomenology, 380)

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
	1 Can We Still Imagine Sisyphus Happy?
	2 Sisyphus at 80: The Essays
Chapter 1 Sickness, Heartache, Punishment, and War: Lessons on the Absurd, or Birth of an Ethic
Chapter 2 The Myth of Sisyphus, the Absurd, and the Question of Empathy
	1 Edith Stein: Life and Philosophy
		1.1 On the Problem of Empathy
		1.2 The Myth of Sisyphus
	2 ‘An Absurd Reasoning’
		2.1 Absurdity and Suicide
		2.2 Absurd Walls
		2.3 Philosophical Suicide
		2.4 Absurd Freedom
	3 ‘Absurd Man’
		3.1 Don Juanism
		3.2 Drama
		3.3 Conquest
	4 Absurd Creation
		4.1 Absurd Art and Empathy
	5 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Benjamin Fondane and Albert Camus: Reason and the Absurd
	1 Brief Encounter
	2 The Revolt against Death
	3 Limits, Reason, and the Irrational
	4 The Needs of Existence
	5 Struggle and the Leap
Chapter 4 Revolt, Absurdity, and the Artist as Sisyphus
	1 The Absurd
	2 Absurd Artist and Art
	3 Create Dangerously and with Responsibility?!
Chapter 5 The Metaphorical Language of the Absurd
	1 Metaphorical Language in Service of Theoretical Demonstration
		1.1 First Metaphor: The Theatre
		1.2 Second Metaphor: The Desert
		1.3 Third Metaphor: The Walls
		1.4 Three Metaphors for Three Absurd Men
	2 Metaphors of the Absurd as a Literary Device in Fiction
		2.1 In The Outsider
		2.2 In Caligula
		2.3 In The Misunderstanding
	3 Samuel Beckett’s Theatre: Radical Application of Camusian Metaphors
		3.1 Wall Metaphors in Beckett’s Plays
		3.2 The Desert Metaphor in Beckett’s Plays
		3.3 The Theatre Metaphor in Beckett’s Plays
	4 Conclusion
Chapter 6 Why Did the Stranger Kill the Arab? A Camusian Study in the Absurdity of Moral Motivation
	1 Introduction: Why, Why, Why, Why, Why Did Meursault Shoot and Kill the Arab?
	2 The Structure of the Incident in Which Meursault Shoots and Kills the Arab
	3 Possible Text-Immanent Answers to the Question Concerning Meursault’s Motive
	4 Plausible Philosophical Answers to the Question Concerning Meursault’s Motive
	5 Rationality and Absurdity in Meursault’s Search for Happiness
Chapter 7 The Blood That Trickles from the Gospels Is the Color of Printers’ Ink: The Relationship between Religious Texts and the Absurd
	1 The Bible as a Frozen and Static World
	2 Winners and Losers
	3 Focus on the Gospel of Mark
Chapter 8 Unlikely Heroism: Sisyphus, Camus, and the Absurd Posture
	1 Making Meaning
	2 Relational Absurdity
	3 The Absurd Posture
	4 Conclusion
Chapter 9 Explanation and the Unreasonable Silence of the World
	1 Introduction
	2 The Teleological Absurd
	3 The Epistemic Absurd
	4 Teleological Explanation
	5 Reconciling the Epistemic and Teleological
	6 Conclusion
Chapter 10 Sisyphus in Hell: The Absurd Thought against (New) Fascism
	1 Absurd Mimēsis
	2 Resisting the Plague
	3 Absurd Patho-logy
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