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From One to All: The Evolution of Camus's Absurdism

Smith, Jared L
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586797469986232

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2020, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
In this thesis, I argue that there is a metaphysical shift in Albert Camus’s philosophy which allows him to build an ethics of revolt in his later work out of his earlier, individual-focused account of absurdism. Against Herbert Hochberg and other scholars who argue that Camus’s later work is inconsistent with his earlier work, this thesis tracks the progression of Camus’s thought in order to demonstrate that his ethics does not constitute a rupture with his past work but a consistent evolution of it. First dealing with the problem of suicide covered in the Sisyphean cycle, the thesis goes on to examine the ethics of rebellion in the Promethean cycle and concludes with a speculative consideration of the third, incomplete cycle on love. Taken together, these chapters show that the consistent evolution of Camus’s absurdism argues the reaction to the absurd that one ought to have is that of agape: the recognition of humanity’s innate power to create value as a transcendental structure of consciousness.
Benjamin Berger (Advisor)
83 p.
Philosophy
Camus; philosophy; absurdism; agape; Sisyphus; Nemesis; Prometheus; absurd; The Stranger; The Rebel; The Plague

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  • Smith, J. L. (2020). From One to All: The Evolution of Camus's Absurdism [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586797469986232

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Smith, Jared. From One to All: The Evolution of Camus's Absurdism. 2020. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586797469986232.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Smith, Jared. "From One to All: The Evolution of Camus's Absurdism." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586797469986232

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