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Rethinking the politics of absurdity Albert Camus, postmodernity, and the survival of innocence

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Rethinking the politics of absurdity

Albert Camus, postmodernity, and the survival of innocence

Author: Bowker, Matthew H.  
Edition, Year of publ.: 1. publ. - 2014
Extent: XVI, 132 S.
ISBN: 9780415717618 , 9781138191440
GND Subject headings: Camus, Albert , Politische Philosophie , Das Absurde , Postmoderne
Shelfmark: 66/IH 24081 B786
 
Reihe/Zeitschrift : Routledge innovations in political theory  :  Alle Einzelbände
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Author: Bowker, Matthew H.   Fragezeichen
Main Title: Rethinking the politics of absurdity
Remainder of title: Albert Camus, postmodernity, and the survival of innocence
by: Matthew H. Bowker
Edition: 1. publ.
Year of publ.: 2014
Extent: XVI, 132 S.
Series: Routledge innovations in political theory
Volume: 55
Abstract: "In Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. In the last century, he argues, fears about subjects' destructive desires have combined with fears about rationality in a way that has made the absurd stance seem attractive. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Weaving together analyses of the work of Albert Camus, Georges Bataille, Judith Butler, Emmanuel Levinas, and others with interview data and popular narratives of apocalypse and survival, Bowker shows that the absurd stance and the postmodern revolt invite a kind of bargain, in which meaning is sacrificed in exchange for the survival of innocence. Bowker asks us to consider that the very premise of this bargain is false: that ethical subjects and healthy communities cannot be created in absurdity. Instead, we must make meaningful even the most shocking losses, terrors, and destructive powers with which we live. Bowker's book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies"..
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ISBN: 9780415717618
ISBN: 9781138191440
GND Subject headings Camus, Albert   Fragezeichen ; Politische Philosophie   Fragezeichen ; Das Absurde ; Postmoderne   Fragezeichen
Subject: Absurd (Philosophy) Sociology Philosophy Political science Philosophy Postmodernism Social aspects Culture POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory PHILOSOPHY / Political
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Language: English
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URL Table of contents: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=026911...
ID-Nr. B3Kat: BV041465370
Shelfmark: 66/IH 24081 B786