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Albert Camus as Political Thinker

Nihilisms and the Politics of Contempt

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  • © 2010

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  1. Samantha Novello

    1. University of Torino, Italy

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: An ‘Untimely’ Political Thought for Serious Times

    • Samantha Novello
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Twentieth-Century Politics of Contempt

    • Samantha Novello
    Pages 10-18

  4. ‘Undisguised influences’

    • Samantha Novello
    Pages 19-32

  5. Tragic Beginnings

    • Samantha Novello
    Pages 33-57

  6. An Artist’s Point of View

    • Samantha Novello
    Pages 58-80

  7. Commencement of Freedom

    • Samantha Novello
    Pages 81-108

  8. The Absurd and Power

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    Pages 109-130

  9. Between Sade and the Dandy

    • Samantha Novello
    Pages 131-147

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 148-193
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An intense genealogical reconstruction of Camus's political thinking challenging the philosophical import of his writings as providing an alternative, aesthetic understanding of politics, political action and freedom outside and against the nihilistic categories of modern political philosophy and the contemporary politics of contempt and terrorisms

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  • University of Torino, Italy

    Samantha Novello

About the author

SAMANTHA NOVELLO is a teacher of Philosophy and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy. She is co-editor of the new edition of Albert Camus's complete works in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard)."

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