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Neil Foxlee

Albert Camus's 'The New Mediterranean Culture'

A Text and its Contexts. 1. Auflage. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,5 cm / 15,0 cm / 2,0 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 360 Seiten
EAN 9783034302074
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2010
Verlag/Hersteller Peter Lang
85,90 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

This book was shortlisted for the R.H. Gapper prize 2011. On 8 February 1937 the 23-year-old Albert Camus gave an inaugural lecture for a new Maison de la culture, or community arts centre, in Algiers. Entitled -La nouvelle culture méditerranéenne- (-The New Mediterranean Culture-), Camus-s lecture has been interpreted in radically different ways: while some critics have dismissed it as an incoherent piece of juvenilia, others see it as key to understanding his future development as a thinker, whether as the first expression of his so-called -Mediterranean humanism- or as an early indication of what is seen as his essentially colonial mentality. These various interpretations are based on reading the text of -The New Mediterranean Culture- in a single context, whether that of Camus-s life and work as a whole, of French discourses on the Mediterranean or of colonial Algeria (and French discourses on that country). By contrast, this study argues that Camus-s lecture - and in principle any historical text - needs to be seen in a multiplicity of contexts, discursive and otherwise, if readers are to understand properly what its author was doing in writing it. Using Camus-s lecture as a case study, the book provides a detailed theoretical and practical justification of this -multi-contextualist- approach.

Portrait

Neil Foxlee is a Visiting Research Fellow at Lancaster University and a lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, where his teaching has included MA modules on Political Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Narrative and Image. His published work includes several articles on Camus and a study of the campaign rhetoric of Barack Obama. He is also a contributor to (and co-editor of) G. McKay et al. (eds), Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe (Peter Lang, 2009).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: A multi-contextualist approach to intellectual-historical method, influenced by Quentin Skinner - Annotated translations of Albert Camus-s `The New Mediterranean Culture- and `Reflections on Generosity- - Critique of humanist and postcolonial approaches to Camus - French discourses on the Mediterranean - Gabriel Audisiös Mediterraneanism - Interwar French intellectual debates on culture and the East-West question - 1930s Algerian politics - Camus-s early life and formative influences - The legacy of `The New Mediterranean Culture- in Camus-s later work.

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