Albert Camus And Education

Author : Aidan Hobson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463009201

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Albert Camus and Education by Aidan Hobson Pdf

This book continues the story about education and the absurd. Its specific focus is on the work of Albert Camus. It tries to summarise the ways in which his writing has already inspired and influenced educational thinking and practice, and it offers a new set of educational interpretations of six of his major works. These set out the exciting challenge about how we might think about the purposes and practices of education in the future, how to talk about these, plan and deliver. Using the work of Albert Camus in this way is an attempt to bring him and his ideas closer to educational discussions. This is a deliberate attempt to show the synergy between some of his major concepts and those that are already cornerstones of educational discourses. Read from an educational perspective the work of Albert Camus also provides guidance and invigorates the imagination as to how education can respond to those increasingly complex, existential crises it finds itself connected to. For educational people interested in these questions this book will hopefully motivate a re-reading of Camus and a brave, new lens on practice.

Author : Peter Roberts,Andrew Gibbons,Richard Heraud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317527220

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Education, Ethics and Existence by Peter Roberts,Andrew Gibbons,Richard Heraud Pdf

Best known today for his novels, plays and short stories, but also an accomplished essayist, editor and journalist, Albert Camus was one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century. He has gained widespread recognition for works such as The Stranger, Caligula, The Plague and Exile and the Kingdom. In 1957 Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1960 he was killed in a car accident, aged just 46. Since Camus’ untimely death, his work has been engaged by scholars in literature, politics, philosophy and many other fields. This volume is one of the first book-length studies of Camus with a specifically educational focus. Camus’ writings raise and address ethical and political questions that resonate strongly with current concerns and debates in educational theory, and the difficulties and dilemmas faced by his characters mirror those encountered by many teachers in school classrooms. This book will appeal to all who wish to consider the connections between education, ethics and the problem of human existence. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy & Theory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 1645420043

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Study Guide to The Stranger and Other Works by Albert Camus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Vaught
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993238866

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Killing Hapless Ally by Anna Vaught Pdf

'Killing Hapless Ally' is a tale of an individual grappling for sanity and identity; a black comedy in which we discover how Alison, its curious protagonist, conceived in childhood an alter ego called 'Hapless Ally' in order to present a different, more palatable version of herself to her family and to the world beyond. The book carries with it a timely message to anyone pole-axed by depression and associated problems - or any reader interested in the windings of such things: you can, like Alison, survive and prevail.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679720201

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The Stranger by Albert Camus Pdf

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. “The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and ­devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” –from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525567202

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Committed Writings by Albert Camus Pdf

The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring political writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Committed Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope of his political thought. This pivotal collection embodies Camus's radical and unwavering commitment to upholding human rights, resisting fascism, and creating art in the service of justice.

Author : Robert E. Meagher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643138220

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Albert Camus and the Human Crisis by Robert E. Meagher Pdf

A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis” that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus’s life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, “cannot live without dialogue and friendship.” As France—and all of the world—was emerging from the depths of World War II, Camus summed up what he saw as "the human crisis”: We gasp for air among people who believe they are absolutely right, whether it be in their machines or their ideas. And for all who cannot live without dialogue and the friendship of other human beings, this silence is the end of the world. In the years after he wrote these words, until his death fourteen years later, Camus labored to address this crisis, arguing for dialogue, understanding, clarity, and truth. When he sailed to New York, in March 1946—for his first and only visit to the United States—he found an ebullient nation celebrating victory. Camus warned against the common postwar complacency that took false comfort in the fact that Hitler was dead and the Third Reich had fallen. Yes, the serpentine beast was dead, but “we know perfectly well,” he argued, “that the venom is not gone, that each of us carries it in our own hearts.” All around him in the postwar world, Camus saw disheartening evidence of a global community revealing a heightened indifference to a number of societal ills. It is the same indifference to human suffering that we see all around, and within ourselves, today. Camus’s voice speaks like few others to the heart of an affliction that infects our country and our world, a world divided against itself. His generation called him “the conscience of Europe.” That same voice speaks to us and our world today with a moral integrity and eloquence so sorely lacking in the public arena. Few authors, sixty years after their deaths, have more avid readers, across more continents, than Albert Camus. Camus has never been a trend, a fad, or just a good read. He was always and still is a companion, a guide, a challenge, and a light in darkened times. This keenly insightful story of an intellectual is an ideal volume for those readers who are first discovering Camus, as well as a penetrating exploration of the author for all those who imagine they have already plumbed Camus’ depths—a supremely timely book on an author whose time has come once again.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410336552

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A Study Guide for Albert Camus's The Stranger by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Albert Camus's "The Stranger," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674728370

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A Life Worth Living by Robert Zaretsky Pdf

Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307827838

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The Rebel by Albert Camus Pdf

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410336422

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A Study Guide for Albert Camus's The Plague by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Albert Camus's "The Plague," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679720218

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The Plague by Albert Camus Pdf

“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.

Author : Oliver Gloag
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198792970

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Albert Camus by Oliver Gloag Pdf

Albert Camus is one of the best known philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as a widely read novelist. This book contextualises Camus in his troubled and conflicted times, and analyses the enduring popularity of his major philosophical and literary works in connection with contemporary political, social, and cultural issues.

Author : Mike Cross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1180869628

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Alienation and Absurdity by Mike Cross Pdf

Author : Ronald Aronson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226027961

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Camus and Sartre by Ronald Aronson Pdf

Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides rather than to appreciate its tragic complexity. Now, using newly available sources, Ronald Aronson offers the first book-length account of the twentieth century's most famous friendship and its end. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. The two became fast friends. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. As playwrights, novelists, philosophers, journalists, and editors, the two seemed to be everywhere and in command of every medium in post-war France. East-West tensions would put a strain on their friendship, however, as they evolved in opposing directions and began to disagree over philosophy, the responsibilities of intellectuals, and what sorts of political changes were necessary or possible. As Camus, then Sartre adopted the mantle of public spokesperson for his side, a historic showdown seemed inevitable. Sartre embraced violence as a path to change and Camus sharply opposed it, leading to a bitter and very public falling out in 1952. They never spoke again, although they continued to disagree, in code, until Camus's death in 1960. In a remarkably nuanced and balanced account, Aronson chronicles this riveting story while demonstrating how Camus and Sartre developed first in connection with and then against each other, each keeping the other in his sights long after their break. Combining biography and intellectual history, philosophical and political passion, Camus and Sartre will fascinate anyone interested in these great writers or the world-historical issues that tore them apart.