ART AND POLITICS IN ALBERT CAMUS: BEAUTY AS DEFIANCE AND ART AS A SPIRITUAL QUEST

Albert Camus's interrogation of the ethical and spiritual vacuity of the twentieth century convinced him that authentic political existence requires a vision that embraces while transcending the human condition. He found his ethical model in art. The work of the artist can be analogous to that...

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Main Author: LeBlanc, John Randolph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 1999
In: Literature and theology
Year: 1999, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 126-148
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Summary:Albert Camus's interrogation of the ethical and spiritual vacuity of the twentieth century convinced him that authentic political existence requires a vision that embraces while transcending the human condition. He found his ethical model in art. The work of the artist can be analogous to that of the just political actor. The principal components of ethical political being are all present in Camus's aesthetics a vision of life in human community (lucidity), a grounded sense of justice subject to the limitations of human existence (beauty), a need to redress the defects of political reality (the urge to create), and an understanding that any structural solution is of necessity temporary (the need to rearticulate the initial vision). Camus's vision requires him to reject our positive political categories in the name of creative, grounded human being.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contains:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/13.2.126