Research Catalog

Title

Albert Camus and the critique of violence / David Ohana ; translated from the Hebrew by David Maisel.

Author

Ohana, David

Publication

• Eastbourne ; Chicago, IL : Sussex Academic Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

Maisel, David

Description

192 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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 was editor of an underground newspaper that opposed the Nazi occupation. In the years following the Liberation, he denounced the Bolshevist tyranny and was witness to the dirty war between the land of his birth and his country of living, France. Camus preoccupation with violence was expressed in all facets of his work as a philosopher, as a political thinker, as an author, as a man of the theatre, as a journalist, as an intellectual, and especially as a man doomed to live in an absurd world of hangmen and victims, binders and bound, sacrificers and sacrificed, crucifiers and crucified. Three main metaphors of western culture can assist in understanding Camus thinking about violence: the bound Prometheus, a hero of Greek mythology; the sacrifice of Isaac, one of the chief dramas of Jewish monotheism; and the crucifixion of Jesus, the founding event of Christianity. The bound, the sacrificed and the crucified represent three perspectives through which David Ohana examines the place of ideological violence and its limits in the works of Albert Camus"--Publisher's description.

Uniform Title

ha-Kavul, he-ʻaḳud ṿeha-tsaluv. English

Alternative Title

ha-Kavul, he-ʻaḳud ṿeha-tsaluv.

Subject

• Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 > Criticism and interpretation
• Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
• Violence in literature
• Violence in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from Hebrew.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The bound -- The sacrificed -- The crucified -- Son of the Mediterranean.

ISBN

• 9781845198220
• 1845198220

OCLC

• 967865749
• SCSB-11836964

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library