Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

List of Abbreviations ix

Introduction: Situating Camus 1

1 Camus’s Life 10

2 The Absurd 21

3 Life 56

4 Scorn 86

5 Solidarity 106

6 Rebellion 136

7 Realpolitik 173

8 Exile And Rebirth 194

9 Epilogue 207

Index 211

About the Author

The Author

David Sherman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana at Missoula. He is the author of Sartre and Adorno: The Dialectics of Subjectivity (2007) and co-editor of The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy (2003).

Reviews

“Sherman's book provides an excellent account of Camus' fortunes and misfortunes in the intellectual realm in France immediately following the war.” (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 2009) “Sherman persuasively argues that what emerges from Camus’s writing is the portrait of a man of courage and decency. Recommended to all academic libraries and university foreign-language departments with strong French programs.” (Library Journal, February 2009)

"Sherman's book provides an excellent account of Camus' fortunes and misfortunes in the intellectual realm in France immediately following the war." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 2009)

"Sherman persuasively argues that what emerges from Camus's writing is the portrait of a man of courage and decency. Recommended to all academic libraries and university foreign-language departments with strong French programs." (Library Journal, February 2009)