Albert Camus Oder der Gluckliche Sisyphos - Albert Camus Ou Sisyphe Heureux

English summary: Through his literary, philosophical and contemporary critical works, Albert Camus counts among the greatest French intellectuals of the 20th century. Although Camus still reaches a large number of readers today, there is no extensive institutionalised Camus research at universities. This anthology is published within the temporal context of his 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death. As a representative of a 20th-century generation, Camus seems to have...
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English summary: Through his literary, philosophical and contemporary critical works, Albert Camus counts among the greatest French intellectuals of the 20th century. Although Camus still reaches a large number of readers today, there is no extensive institutionalised Camus research at universities. This anthology is published within the temporal context of his 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death. As a representative of a 20th-century generation, Camus seems to have become a mythological figure, who understood historic and individual catastrophes to be personal challenges and firmly believed that humanitarianism will prevail. The volume is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter brings together treatises on philosophical, ethical and political questions under the heading Commitment; the second, under the heading Aesthetics, his works on narratives and drama; the third, finally, is dedicated to the relation between tradition and modernity and deals with questions of reception and intertextuality. German description: Albert Camus' Werk wurde weltweit rezipiert und ist nach wie vor von brisanter Aktualitat. Eine umfassende Camus-Forschung hat sich dennoch nicht institutionalisieren konnen. Die Beitrager des Bandes nehmen Camus' 100. Geburtstag daher zum Anlass, auf die Vielfalt in dessen oeuvre hinzuweisen, und geben wichtige Impulse fur eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem franzosischen Intellektuellen: Der erste Teil des Bandes beschaftigt sich mit dem Thema ngagementund versammelt Beitrage zu Fragen von Philosophie, Ethik und Politik. Der zweite Teil widmet sich unter der Uberschrift Ästhetikdem literarischen Werk Camus' und dessen Narrativik und Dramatik. Der dritte Teil schliesslich untersucht das Verhaltnis von radition und Moderneund behandelt Fragen der Rezeption und der Intertextualitat.