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Analyses a wealth of diverse critical approaches to philosophical style and form
Provides an in-depth account of Camus' distinctive vision of the role of fiction in provoking moral reflection
Examines the particular rhetorical techniques and forms of discourse utilised by Camus in order to provoke reflection in the reader
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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 ethics— Camus does philosophy differently, and the insights his methodologies offer could prove invaluable in both ethical theory and practice. Camus sees lived experience and emotion as ineliminable in ethics, and thus he chooses literary methods of communicating moral problems in an attempt to draw positively on these aspects of human morality. Using case studies of Camus’ specific literary methods, including dialogue, myth, mime and syntax, Whistler pinpoints the efficacy of each of Camus’ attempts to flesh-out moral problems, and thus shows just how much contemporary ethics could benefit from such a diversification in method.
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Book Title: Camus' Literary Ethics
Book Subtitle: Between Form and Content
Authors: Grace Whistler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37756-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37755-7Published: 26 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37758-8Published: 26 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37756-4Published: 25 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 209
Topics: Existentialism, Aesthetics, Ethics, Twentieth-Century Literature