Rescuing postmodernism from the belly of the beast with Albert Camus
(6/3/18 and edited)
Albert Camus (
7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and
journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known
as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
As he wrote in
L'Homme révolté (
The Rebel), in the chapter about "The Thought on Midday", Camus was a follower of the ancient Greek 'Solar Tradition' (la
pensée solaire). In 1947–48, he founded the Revolutionary Union Movement (
Groupes de liaison internationale – GLI) a trade union movement in the context of revolutionary syndicalism (
Syndicalisme révolutionnaire). According to Olivier Todd, in his biography
Albert Camus, une vie, it was a group opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton. For more, see the book
Alfred Rosmer et le mouvement révolutionnaire international by Christian Gras.
His colleagues were Nicolas Lazarévitch, Louis Mercier,
Roger Lapeyre, Paul Chauvet, Auguste Largentier, Jean de Boë (see the
article: "Nicolas Lazarévitch, Itinéraire d'un syndicaliste
révolutionnaire" by Sylvain Boulouque in the review
Communisme, n° 61, 2000). His main aim was to express the positive side of surrealism and existentialism, rejecting the negativity and the nihilism of André Breton.
From 1943, Albert Camus had correspondence with Altiero Spinelli who founded the European Federalist Movement in Milan—see Ventotene Manifesto
and the book "Unire l'Europa, superare gli stati", Altiero Spinelli nel
Partito d'Azione del Nord Italia e in Francia dal 1944 al 1945-annexed a
letter by Altiero Spinelli to Albert Camus.
In 1944, Camus founded the "French Committee for the European Federation" (
Comité Français pour la Féderation Européenne
– CFFE) declaring that Europe "can only evolve along the path of
economic progress, democracy and peace if the nation states become a
federation."
From 22 to 25 March 1945, the first conference of the European
Federalist Movement was organised in Paris with the participation of
Albert Camus, George Orwell, Emmanuel Mounier, Lewis Mumford, André Philip, Daniel Mayer, François Bondy and Altiero Spinelli. This specific branch of the European Federalist Movement disintegrated in 1957 after Winston Churchill's ideas about European integration rose to dominance. (<suppose thats for the english sentiments, never heard that)
Camus's first significant contribution to philosophy was his idea of the absurd.
He saw it as the result of our desire for clarity and meaning within a
world and condition that offers neither, which he expressed in
The Myth of Sisyphus and incorporated into many of his other works, such as
The Stranger and
The Plague. Despite his split from his "study partner", Sartre, Camus was still categorized as an Existentialist. He specifically rejected that label in his essay "Enigma" and elsewhere.
The current confusion arises, in part, because many recent applications
of existentialism have much in common with many of Camus's
practical ideas (see:
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death). But, his personal understanding of the world (e.g., "a benign indifference", in
The Stranger), and every vision he had for its progress (e.g., vanquishing the "adolescent furies" of history and society, in
The Rebel) undoubtedly set him apart.
In the 1950s, Camus devoted his efforts to human rights. In 1952, he resigned from his work for UNESCO when the UN accepted Spain as a member under the leadership of General Franco. In 1953, he criticized Soviet methods to crush a workers' strike in East Berlin. In 1956, he protested against similar methods in Poland (protests in Poznań) and the Soviet repression of the Hungarian revolution in October.
Camus maintained his pacifism and resisted capital punishment
anywhere in the world. He wrote an essay against capital punishment in
collaboration with Arthur Koestler,
the writer, intellectual and founder of the League Against Capital
Punishment. He was consistent in his call for non-aggression in Algeria.
Existentialism
As
one of the forefathers of existentialism, Camus focused most of his
philosophy around existential questions. The absurdity of life and its
inevitable ending (death) is highlighted in the very famous opening of
the novel
The Stranger (1942): "Mother died today. Or maybe
yesterday; I can't be sure.". This alludes to his claim that life is
engrossed by the absurd. He believed that the absurd - life being void
of meaning, or man's inability to know that meaning if it were to exist -
was something that man should embrace. He argued that this crisis of
self could cause a man to commit ("philosophical suicide"); choosing to
believe in external sources that give life (what he would describe as
false) meaning. He claimed that religion was the main culprit. If a man
chose to believe in religion - that the meaning of life was ascend to
heaven, or some similar afterlife, that he committed philosophical
suicide by trying to escape the absurd. ....etc
there's a lot, but i leave that for looking into first
- an inconnu, who's that p béégéé i heard of ? (jbp)
i don't even know if its the right person,but timewise and existentially nihilstic interesting
Pierre Bergé was a French award-winning industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent, and was a longtime business partner (and onetime life partner) of the eponymous designer; also sexscandals, sadism and pedophily.
Nihilistic fashion creating
Yves Saint Laurent fait ses débuts de couturier chez Dior
au milieu des années 1950. Il entre comme assistant-modéliste auprès de
Christian Dior, puis signe six collections après la mort du couturier.
Il connait alors sa première reconnaissance mondiale.
« Dior m'avait appris à aimer quelque chose d'autre que la mode et le
stylisme : la noblesse fondamentale du métier de couturier. »
Ses aspirations artistiques brisées par sa mère, Christian Dior reste
longtemps à la traîne de ses amis — la plupart également homosexuels —
dont Jean Cocteau, Francis Poulenc, Max Jacob et Maurice Sachs. Ses débuts sont difficiles. Des centaines de témoignages et journaux intimes révèlent un être généreux et drôle jusqu'à la bouffonnerie, mais profondément secret et qui cacha son homosexualité.
there you go, fashion, rich investors, homosexuals imaging masked mirrors,
there's nothing wrong with that but there's also a lot wrong with that
Jean Cocteau Comptant parmi les artistes qui ont marqué le
XXe siècle, il a côtoyé la plupart de ceux qui ont animé la vie artistique de son époque. Il a été l'imprésario
de son temps, le lanceur de modes, le bon génie d'innombrables
artistes. En dépit de ses œuvres littéraires et de ses talents
artistiques, Jean Cocteau insista toujours sur le fait qu'il était avant
tout un poète et que tout travail est poétique.
https://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/le-coming-out-de-jean-cocteau_822959.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Enfants_Terribles
and some
spirit cooking?
http://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/cdc/placenta.php
back to Camus
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-2979-9_19
how Camus can be seen as both a precursor and antithetical to postmodernism?
and oneself, searching and reviewing assumptions- foundations
(benjamin a boyce with chris dangerfield)( jb peterson with russel brand)
not read yet;
http://www.iairs.org/PAPERS_V1-I1/PAGE%2069%20-%2074.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02572865
aren't people repeating eachother and themselves? did they actually read camus' books?
there's a 'jean piaget' found, (YT - 2017 Personality 06: Jean Piaget & Constructivism)
from wiki
The theorist we recognize today only emerged when he moved to Geneva, to work for Édouard Claparède as director of research at the Rousseau Institute, in 1922.
Connection with the International Bureau of Education (IBE)
In 1925, the governing board of the Rousseau Institute voted to establish the International Bureau of Education (IBE), which is now a category 1 institute of UNESCO. The governing board received a $5000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation
to found the IBE. Rousseau Institute director Pierre Bovet became the
first director of the IBE.
Rousseau wrote that he persuaded Thérèse to give each of the newborns up to a foundling hospital,
oh, knowing education to a tee and all, that's very....disturbing....?
