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  title info:
    title: Why Camus matters
  name:
    name part: Sharpe, Matthew
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: viii, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Camus was a man of the Left, without believing in inevitable progress; he wrestled with nihilism but only in order to seek paths beyond it; he repudiated belief in God yet wrestled profoundly with religious questions; he defended "Western civilization" and adored the ancient Greeks, whilst denouncing reactionary politics; he explored the darkest human experiences, yet defended moderation, love and dialogue. He matters today, firstly, because the problems he addressed remain ours: widespread cynicism and despair, democratic collapse, the rise of authoritarianisms, alienation from nature and a fascination with extremes. Secondly, because the solutions he explored to these problems were so highly original and balanced, relative to more widely-credited schools of thought: whether liberalism, Marxism, or fascism, or existentialism, postmodernism, or postcolonialism.--Cf. Cover.
  note: Matthew Sharpe.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Camus, Albert
      name part: 1913-1960
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, French
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie française
  classification: B2430.C354 S53 2026
  classification: 194
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  identifier: 9781350512498
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  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 260226
    record change date: 20260610161423.7
    record identifier: in00005785533
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng