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Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth - Softcover

Gloag, Oliver

 
9781836742708: Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1836742703 ISBN 13: 9781836742708
Verlag: Verso Books, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Albert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti-colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camus’s three major novels – The Stranger, The Plague, and The First Man – reveals a deep-seated attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life. Forget Camus argues that its subject’s contradictions are central to understanding both his work and the meaning behind his enduring popularity. The legacy of the most widely read Frenchman in the world has been co-opted to present a flattering and false version of colonial history and is an obstacle to France coming to terms with its neocolonial present.

Forget Camus is a book about colonial history and a nation’s literature that lays bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Oliver Gloag is a writer affiliated with Duke’s Institute for Critical Theory. He was born in New York and grew up in France. He has a JD from Tulane University and a Ph.D in romance studies from Duke. His focus is on colonial representations in French literature. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1836742703
ISBN 13 
9781836742708
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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