Camus
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Part of the prestigious Fontana Modern Masters series, edited by Frank Kermode, this incisive critical study presents the life and intellectual legacy of Albert Camus — one of the twentieth century's most celebrated French-Algerian authors and philosophers. Conor Cruise O'Brien argues that Camus cannot be understood apart from the colonial Algerian context in which he was formed, illuminating the deep tensions between his humanist ideals and his political realities. With scholarly rigour and penetrating insight, the work chronicles Camus's philosophical trajectory — from the existentialist absurdism of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus through to the moral complexities of The Rebel — revealing a thinker profoundly shaped by contradiction. O'Brien's analysis is both critically authoritative and compellingly readable, making this an essential volume for anyone seeking to understand the man behind the myth.
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Part of the prestigious Fontana Modern Masters series, edited by Frank Kermode, this incisive critical study presents the life and intellectual legacy of Albert Camus — one of the twentieth century's most celebrated French-Algerian authors and philosophers. Conor Cruise O'Brien argues that Camus cannot be understood apart from the colonial Algerian context in which he was formed, illuminating the deep tensions between his humanist ideals and his political realities. With scholarly rigour and penetrating insight, the work chronicles Camus's philosophical trajectory — from the existentialist absurdism of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus through to the moral complexities of The Rebel — revealing a thinker profoundly shaped by contradiction. O'Brien's analysis is both critically authoritative and compellingly readable, making this an essential volume for anyone seeking to understand the man behind the myth.
