Results 41 to 50 of about 44,103 (214)
Transplanting Resistance: How the French Résistance Shaped Postwar Japanese Literary Debates
ABSTRACT This article traces the emergence and development of debates on “resistance” in Japanese literary discourse from the immediate aftermath of Japan's defeat in 1945 to the conclusion and implementation of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. In the turbulent postwar literary scene, writers and critics vigorously pursued questions of wartime ...
Akito Sakasai
wiley +1 more source
Albert Camus: Philosopher -- Artist [PDF]
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Much of modern fiction, whether it can be said to be existential in theme or not, is concerned with deep philosophical problems.
Walz, Eugene P.
core +1 more source
ABSTRACT The use of informatics for materials design has long promised revolutionary advances through data‐driven discovery; but the untrustworthiness of the available data continues to undermine progress. Indeed, materials knowledge remains fragmented across disciplines and organizations; collaboration faces structural barriers, and the gap between ...
Shuichi Iwata
wiley +1 more source
TRANSLATOR IN LOVE? CORRESPODENCE BETWEEN JOANNA GUZE AND ALBERT CAMUS We may recognize at least two loves in Joanna Guze’s life: for French language and for Albert Camus, who was her favourite author and whose work she was fortunate to translate ...
Anna « Rita » Rucińska
doaj +1 more source
01. Richard C. Richards, I Hardly Knew Ye [PDF]
I first met Richard Richards at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in the fall of 1996. I was a Freshman who had a curious interest in philosophy; yet, at the time, I was a Biology major planning of a life in Hawaii where I’d be conducting ...
Francev, Peter
core +1 more source
A Case for Contingent Absurdity
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
wiley +1 more source
Meaningful Meaninglessness: Albert Camus\u27 Presentation of Absurdism as a Foundation for Goodness [PDF]
In 1957, Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature. By that time he had written such magnificently important works such as Caligula (1938), The Stranger (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Rebel (1951), and The Fall (1956).
Genovese, Maria K
core +1 more source
Derek Mahon’s Affiliations with Albert Camus [PDF]
Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Hodoń, Aleksandra
core
Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
wiley +1 more source
Albert Camus en Chile: absurdo y rebeldía en una atmósfera existencialista (1948-1952) [PDF]
In this article, we will make an approach to the reception of Albert Camus thought and figure in theChilean cultural field during the first postwar years. Its reception was an important phenomenon for thearticulation and consolidation of several cultural
Arriagada, Patricio
core +1 more source

