Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre

Name: Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre
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ISBN: 9780195181579

ISBN-10: 0195181573

ISBN-13: 9780195181579

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert C. Solomon

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In the same spirit as his most recent book, Living With Eietzsche, and his earlier study In the Spirit of Hegel, Robert Solomon turns to the existential thinkers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, in an attempt to get past the academic and political debates and focus on what is truly interesting and valuable about their philosophies. Solomon makes the case that--despite their very different responses to the political questions of their day--Camus and Sartre were both fundamentally moralists, and their philosophies cannot be understood apart from their deep ethical commitments. He focuses on Sartre's early, pre-1950 work, and on Camus's best known novels The Stranger, The Plague, and The…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Introduction : Camus and Sartre



"True to his feelings" : phenomenology and reflection in Camus' L'Etranger



Camus' Myth of Sisyphus and the meaning of life



Meditations on Nausea : Sartre's phenomenological ontology



Sartre on emotions : a reading of his "sketch" of 1939



Facing death together : Camus' The plague



True to oneself : Sartre's bad faith and freedom



No way out : Sartre's No exit and "being-for-others"



Pathologies of pride : Camus' The fall


Conclusion : thinking it through - experience and reflection