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Ethics and Creativity in the Political Thought of Simone Weil and Albert Camus

SKU: PMRT.GEN.5671.03288

$240.45

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780773465671
Publication Date: 2004
Condition: New

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This work of political theory traces, for the first time in a book-length work, the critical development of the idea of creativity in politics through the intellectual relationship of Simone Weil and Albert Camus. Assessing their separate but complementary attempts to bring aesthetic considerations of beauty and order to bear on an ethical conception of political life, the book calls into question both a purely aestheticized picture of reality and postmodern tendency to see reality as a discontinuous discourses by emphasizing that which Weil and Camus believed the activities of labor and art share in common: the capacity and obligation to transform our perspective while respecting our physical and metaphysical limits.

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