Title Albert Camus and the critique of violence / David Ohana ; translated from the Hebrew by David Maisel

Published Brighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) Contents Introduction -- The bound -- The sacrificed -- The crucified -- Son of the Mediterranean Summary "The temptation to resort to violence runs like a thread through Albert Camus works, and can be viewed as an additional key to understanding his literary productions and philosophical writings. His short life and intellectual attitudes were almost all connected with brutality and cruel circumstance. At the age of one he lost his father, who was killed as a soldier of the French army at the outbreak of the First World War. He passed his childhood and youth in colonial Algeria, no doubt experiencing degrees of inhumanity of that difficult period; and in his first years in conquered France he was editor of an underground newspaper that opposed the Nazi occupation. In the years following the Liberation, he denounced the Bolshevist tyranny and was witness to the dirty war between the land of his birth and his country of living, France. Camus preoccupation with violence was expressed in all facets of his work as a philosopher, as a political thinker, as an author, as a man of the theatre, as a journalist, as an intellectual, and especially as a man doomed to live in an absurd world of hangmen and victims, binders and bound, sacrificers and sacrificed, crucifiers and crucified. Three main metaphors of western culture can assist in understanding Camus thinking about violence: the bound Prometheus, a hero of Greek mythology; the sacrifice of Isaac, one of the chief dramas of Jewish monotheism; and the crucifixion of Jesus, the founding event of Christianity. The bound, the sacrificed and the crucified represent three perspectives through which David Ohana examines the place of ideological violence and its limits in the works of Albert Camus"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Translated from the Hebrew Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 27, 2017) Subject Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 fast Subject Violence in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French Violence in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Maisel, David, translator. ISBN 9781782843139 1782843132 9781782843153 1782843159

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