Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Camus, Philosophe?
Part I: Cave & Critique
Chapter One: Plague Power: Camus with and against the Critiques of
Instrumental Reason
Chapter Two: Theodicy Now? Camus with and against the
Secularisation Thesis
Part II: Turning Around, the Rough Ascent
Chapter Three: Between All or Nothing: Camus with and against the
‘Deconstruction of Western Metaphysics’
Chapter Four: From Revolution to Rebellion: Camus with and against
the Theorists of Dialogic Ethics
Part III: Going Back Down
Chapter Five: Excluding Nothing: Camus’ NeoHellenic Philosophy of
Mesure
Chapter Six: After the Fall, the First Man
Appendix One: L’Homme Révolté in 40 premises
Appendix Two: Camusian Mesure: Philosophe, Aesthetic, and
Political
Appendix Three: Philosophy united to Rhetoric: the ‘Master
Argument’ in “Letters to a German Friend”
Bibliography
Index
Dr Matthew Sharpe teaches philosophy at Deakin University. He is the author of many articles, magazine pieces and book chapters on critical theory, psychoanalysis, modern receptions of ancient thought, and Camus’ work.
"In sum, Sharpe makes a strong argument for the continuing vitality
of Camus' thought, that his is a well-deserved renaissance.
Sharpe's text would be a useful addition to any undergraduate or
graduate library as a superb summary of current Camus scholarship
and trends." -David Stegall, Clemson University, Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews (2016.02.10)
“This book has helped me understand the place in which I live and
my place in it… Sharpe’s book demonstrates that Camus’ oeuvre is a
move from an individual philosophy of individual mesure (the Myth
of Sisyphus), where the absurd is more like a humility before
nature than an undermining of rationality, to a philosophy of
community which uses the permanence of nature to limit the ability
of hegemony, history et al to impose barbaric political reality on
its citizens. Mesure is what allows us to come closer to the
concepts which stand outside of the historicst reductive readings
of mankind.” --Dr Daniel Brennan, Bond University
“This is a great book, showing a love of wordplay and words, and
providing a generous reading of Camus’ work. We can look back and
see a distorted moralism in the accusations of Camus’ moralism by
Sartre, Jeanson, and so on. Matthew makes a very compelling case
for taking Camus’ philosophy seriously, for thinking of Camus as a
person of sense and wisdom, as well as a great, lyrical writer. The
book is beautifully written and delightful to read. The philosophy
of mesure and the virtues of faithfulness, wonder, love, and
intelligence, are all in the book and the author.” --Associate
Professor Marguerite La Caze, University of Queensland
“Matthew Sharpe conducts an impressive, in-depth study of Camus’
work, presenting him in a tantalizing new light: as a direct heir
of the Enlightenment who sought to defend its project in systematic
ways, between philosophy and literature.” -- Jean-Philippe Deranty,
Macquarie University
"According to Sharpe, Camus’ work—literary fiction, plays,
mediations, extended philosophy essays, political
journalism—belongs to the Enlightenment’s basic vision of the
philosopher as an engaged thinker, whose model was not Plato, but
Cicero. Camus’ moderate scepticism means that his work sought to
defend the ancient value of Sophrosyne (avoidance of excesses) on
new, modern and post-metaphysical foundations, while Sharpe reads
his works as communicative acts in public contexts, where the mode
of communication was shaped rhetorically to the audience and the
situation ...This represented a reactivation of the idea of
philosophy as a way of life—as a thoughtful life exemplified by
reflective conduct, rather than as an extension of medieval
scholasticism into a scientific age in the form philosophical
system-building." --Geoffrey Boucher, author of Adorno Reframed
(2013).
"While the case Matt Sharpe makes here for reconsidering Camus as a
philosophe is original, illuminating, and compelling, far more
important is his defense and implicit practice of a Socratic and
Ciceronian conception of philosophical commitment that makes that
reconsideration possible. As a result, Sharpe's Camus is not only a
modern rebel but also truly classic, and at a moment when many are
giving a sympathetic ear to Pierre Hadot, Sharpe's Camus has
offered us an inspiring exemplum of a far more engaged conception
of what it really means to live the life of philosophy." --W.H.F.
Altman, author of Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic
(2014) and The Guardians in Actions: Plato the Teacher and the
Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus (2016)
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