Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts : Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre - Robert C. Solomon

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Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts

Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre

By: Robert C. Solomon

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Hardcover | 1 September 2006

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In the same spirit as his most recent book, Living With Nietzsche, and his earlier study In the Spirit of Hegel, Robert Solomon turns to the existential thinkers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, in an attempt to get past the academic and political debates and focus on what is truly interesting and valuable about their philosophies. Solomon makes the case that--despite their very different responses to the political questions of their day--Camus and Sartre were both fundamentally moralists, and their philosophies cannot be understood apart from their deep ethical commitments. He focuses on Sartre's early, pre-1950 work, and on Camus's best known novels The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall. Throughout Solomon makes the important point that their shared interest in phenomenology was much more important than their supposed affiliation with "existentialism." Solomon's reappraisal will be of interest to anyone who is still or ever has been fascinated by these eccentric but monumental figures.

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"This book should appeal to a great many people: it is of interest to philosophers who are interested in topics outside the narrow bandwidth of technophilosophy, to teachers and students in philosophy in literature courses, to all students of literature, especially of French literature, and of course to the amazingly large group of people who read everything Solomon writes." --Charles Guignon, University of South Florida "This book should appeal to a great many people: it is of interest to philosophers who are interested in topics outside the narrow bandwidth of technophilosophy, to teachers and students in philosophy in literature courses, to all students of literature, especially of French literature, and of course to the amazingly large group of people who read everything Solomon writes." --Charles Guignon, University of South Florida

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Introduction : Camus and Sartre	p. 3
"True to his feelings" : phenomenology and reflection in Camus' L'Etranger	p. 11
Camus' Myth of Sisyphus and the meaning of life	p. 34
Meditations on Nausea : Sartre's phenomenological ontology	p. 60
Sartre on emotions : a reading of his "sketch" of 1939	p. 93
Facing death together : Camus' The plague	p. 114
True to oneself : Sartre's bad faith and freedom	p. 131
No way out : Sartre's No exit and "being-for-others"	p. 177
Pathologies of pride : Camus' The fall	p. 196
Conclusion : thinking it through - experience and reflection	p. 213
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