https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Camus-in-America https://booksandideas.net/Camus-in-America 2016-10-17T07:00:00Z text/html en Marie-Pierre Ulloa Arts France United States of America Text Interviews Camus intertextuality <p>Described as “the admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work” by Jean-Paul Sartre, Camus embodies the very French figure of the “<i>intellectuel engagé</i>,” or public intellectual. The interest he still arouses in the United States reveals how much his work has been the object of enduring fascination for the American readership.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Tender-Indifference-of-the-World-Revisiting-Albert-Camus https://booksandideas.net/The-Tender-Indifference-of-the-World-Revisiting-Albert-Camus 2015-05-28T05:30:00Z text/html en Marylin Maeso Philosophy literature rebellion Institut français Portraits Spinoza Camus <p>In an innovative study that returns Albert Camus' early works to their rightful place in the canon, Laurent Bove suggests we should view Camus as a philosopher of immanence and of acquiescence to the joy of the world. This reading is enlightening as far as Camus' thoughts on history are concerned, but tends to gloss over the ruptures that run though his work, which is driven with multiple tensions.</p>