Camus' Literary Ethics Between Form and Content
This book seeks to establish the relevance of Albert Camus’ philosophy and literature to contemporary ethics. By examining Camus’ innovative methods of approaching moral problems, Whistler demonstrates that Camus’ work has much to offer the world of ethic
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Camus’ Literary Ethics “From an ethical perspective enhanced by stylistic sensitivity, Grace Whistler examines a number of ways in which Albert Camus gives form to some of his most important views in various works throughout his career. Her book is a fitting response to one of Camus’ own concerns, since “donner une forme” is an expression that recurs in his work and reveals his creative process and artistic quest. Camus’ Literary Ethics: Between Form and Content also makes a theoretical contribution by exploring, clearly and methodically, and sometimes in the work of other writers, the mutually beneficial relationships between literature and philosophy, as well as the organic links between language and content.” —Sophie Bastien, Royal Military College of Canada, author of Caligula et Camus. Interférences transhistoriques, co-editor of Camus, l’artiste and La Passion du théâtre. Camus à la scène “Camus once observed: ‘If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.’ Perhaps it is the inability of most philosophers to write novels that leads them to think that Camus is not a philosopher. In her empathic and exacting study, Camus’ Literary Ethics: Between Form and Content, Grace Whistler shows that Camus saw a connection that some philosophers miss. She presents clear and convincing evidence that Camus excelled at doing philosophy by writing great literature. Her argument does justice to Camus’ use of various literary forms to give expression to philosophical content, but it is strongest when she shows how Camus composes novels expressing values worth living and dying for. This book should finally put to rest the distorted picture of the artist as an absurdist, ‘existentialist’, and nihilist.” —George Heffernan, Professor of Philosophy, Merrimack College, USA “Grace Whistler, in this astute and authoritative study, argues persuasively that the true originality of Camus as an ethical thinker emerges not through focusing separately on his philosophy or his novels but through recognising how the philosophical and the literary are inextricably integrated in his writing.” —Peter Lamarque, Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK, author of The Philosophy of Literature (2008) and The Opacity of Narrative (2014)
Grace Whistler
Camus’ Literary Ethics Between Form and Content
Grace Whistler Department of Philosophy University of York York, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-37755-7 ISBN 978-3-030-37756-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37756-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or he
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