Camus’ Stranger Explained, Because Reading is Boring | Critical-Theory.com “The Stranger” is perhaps Albert Camus‘ most famous work. Published in 1942, it recalls the events of a man living in French Algeria after his mother dies. Not one to mourn, he starts a new love affair, makes new friends and ends up killing someone. His real crime, however, is “being a stranger to the rules of society.” In the spirit of Camus’ own brand of existentialism (though he hated the label), the main character remains thoroughly indifferent to his fate. We are, after all, insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe. “The Stranger” is also the subject of the song “Killing an Arab” by The Cure. Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
New Left Review - NLR 90, November-December 2014 “Nietzsche’s Burst of Laughter,” Interview with Gilles Deleuze | Critical-Theory.com This interview, entitled “Nietzsche’s Burst of Laughter”, was published in 1967 in the French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur on April 5. It was conducted by Guy Dumur. Posted to Reddit, the source of the translation is not cited. However, a translation of the same interview exists in “Desert Islands: and Other Texts, 1953–1974.” Deleuze discusses the release of Nietzsche’s collected works, and the problems analyzing Nietzsche’s oeuvre. “Elizabeth Forster-Nietzsche put together an extremely harmful work that privileges many Nazi interpretations,” Deleuze notes. Before writing “Anti-Oedipus” with Felix Guattari, Deleuze wrote about the history of philosophy, including “Nietzsche and Philosophy.” Deleuze continues to speak on the relevance of Nietzsche in contemporary France. Read the interview below: Dumur: How was the new edition of Nietzsche’s Complete Philosophical Works established? Dumur: How do you explain that Italians rather than Germans did the job? Deleuze: Completely new.
Albert Camus will always be the outsider – and I'm proud of that, says the writer's daughter | Books | The Observer It is a century since French Nobel prize-winning author Albert Camus was born – and more than 50 years since he died in an accident on an icy road – yet the polemics over his legacy and "mysterious" death rumble on. What his only daughter, Catherine Camus, recalls, however, is not the man shunned by Algeria, the country of his birth, as an Arab-despising colonialist, nor the slowness of the French establishment to recognise him, nor even the anti-communist who may – or may not – have been murdered by the Russians. "Was he killed by the KGB? I don't know and I don't want to know. He was Papa," she says, her voice faltering a fraction. "And I lost him. We are sitting in the tall-ceilinged former office of Claude Gallimard, son of Gaston, founder of the French publishing company that brought Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and André Gide to the wider world. A major French exhibition was cancelled amid rows and recriminations over what part Algeria should play in it.
Marx, Engels, Lénine ThinkShop: Nietzsche on Forgetting the Past It seems that we are moving to a time when it may become quite an uncontroversial assertion to claim that there is no point in remembering the past, after all, a quick Google search is far more efficient. It could be argued even that forgetting the past completely is a healthier option than remembering – less conflict based on unforgotten slights. But Nietzsche understood that to demand of humans that they should never practice history and never attempt to remember would be asking the impossible. In his afterword to a Dutch translation of Nietzsche, Frank Ankersmit agrees that Nietzsche never planned to condemn the study of history wholeheartedly, and therefore embrace absolute forgetfulness. The Czech novelist, Milan Kundera, played with issues of remembering and forgetting in his novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
Celebrate Albert Camus’s 100th Birthday with These 3 Biographies | Biography Happy 100th birthday to Albert Camus! The French philosopher is considered one of the leading minds of absurdism, a philosophical concept recognizing the inherent absurdity of an individual’s search for meaning. The world is, after all, devoid of any singular meaning. Born in 1913 in French Algeria and raised in poverty by his hearing-impaired and widowed mother, Camus worked his way through college, paying for his tuition with a series of odd jobs, including serving as a goal keeper for his college football team until he contracted tuberculosis, a disease with which he would struggle off and on for the rest of his life. Camus grew politically active as a young adult, allying himself with communist, socialist and anarchist organizations at different times of his life. After the end of World War II, the brutality of the Soviet Regime caused Camus to reject communism. Camus died in 1960, the victim of a car accident. Want to know more about the life of Albert Camus? Author Sean B.
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