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- Title
Eine intellektuelle Ethik der Bescheidenheit und der Solidarität. Albert Camus' Denken der Revoke.
- Authors
Suntrup, Jan Christoph
- Abstract
Albert Camus is a writer whose unconventional political thought is often underestimated. This analysis tries to counteract this phenomenon by reconstructing an intellectual ethic from Camus's political writings in postwar-France, i.e. from his articles in Cornbat and his essay L'hornme révolté. From his antitotalitarian conception of revolt results a critique of political judgment which draws the consequences from own weaknesses as well as from general misdemeanours of the intellectuals' discourse after liberation. The Camusian intellectual who shares several important features with Richard Rorty's liberal ironist, can be regarded as valuable addition to the public sphere, as he combines the virtue of modesty and the restriction to the `relative' with critical commitment.
- Subjects
CAMUS, Albert, 1913-1960; POLITICAL ethics; INTELLECTUAL life; POLITICS &; literature; TOTALITARIANISM; LIBERTY; MODESTY; SOLIDARITY; RORTY, Richard, 1931-2007
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Politik, 2009, Vol 56, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0044-3360
- Publication type
Article