03874nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-74564-5 DE-He213 20251030114933.0 cr nn 008mamaa 250128s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031745645 978-3-031-74564-5 10.1007/978-3-031-74564-5 doi B1-5802 HPC bicssc PHI009000 bisacsh QDH thema Visone, Tommaso. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 90517 Albert Camus as Philosopher and Political Thinker [electronic resource] : The Radicality of Modesty / by Tommaso Visone. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIV, 143 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1: Introduction -- 2: Fighting Hybris: Revolt as modern morality -- 3: An act of modesty: Care in the Plague -- 4: Modesty as radical attitude. A comparison between Democracy and Art -- 5: Against International Dictatorship: A modest Utopia -- 6: “The worst enemy of itself”. Europe as a divided, dying and helpless civilisation -- 7: For a decolonial federalism: the Algerian debate and the rejection of nationalism -- 8: Conclusions: Modesty as a Camusian lesson for the XXI century. This book explores the role of modesty in the thought of Albert Camus. Camusian modesty – modestie – affirms, against nihilism and absolutism, the necessity of taking care and putting passion into the relativity of human creation and recreation. The book shows how this care and passion spring from the necessity of a continually renewed tension between the self and the limits which transcend the self. From this standpoint, modesty is not a form of moderation; it goes to the root of human condition in face of the absurd. It is a radical attitude which engages human life in a daily struggle for meaning. With modesty in mind, Camus reimagined the relation between meaning and absurdity, history and nature, self and other, nation state and continent, global north and south, and war and peace. In a world of arrogance, narcissism, and fear, Camus’ philosophical and political insights are fundamental in order to re-think and re-imagine our present. Tommaso Visone is Associate Professor of History of Political Doctrines at Link University and Adjunct Professor of Political Thought for Colonization and Decolonization at Sapienza University of Rome. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of CNR (National Council of Research), Rome. Philosophy History. 70495 Philosophy of mind. Self. 57581 Philosophy. 66189 Postcolonialism. 19132 Europe Politics and government. 69875 International relations. 58103 History of Philosophy. 70497 Philosophy of the Self. 72678 Postcolonial Philosophy. 70057 European Politics. 69876 International Relations. 58103 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031745638 Printed edition: 9783031745652 Printed edition: 9783031745669 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74564-5 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 66550 66550