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Albert Camus and the Critique of Violence
David Ohana
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Description for Albert Camus and the Critique of Violence
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 304.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
303g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845198220
SKU
V9781845198220
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About David Ohana
Professor David Ohana teaches European history at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He was a visiting fellow at The Sorbonne, Harvard, and Berkeley as well as the first academic director of the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His many books include: The Origins of Israeli Mythology (Cambridge, 2014), Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity ... Read more
Reviews for Albert Camus and the Critique of Violence
Ohana shows us a Camus who, via World War II and the Holocaust especially, came to the position of Promethean humanism.Melissa Ptacek, Brandeis University, Studies in 20th & 21st Literature, Vol. 42, Iss. 2 (2018)