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A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning by Robert Zaretsky
$39.50 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions help explain something of Camus' remarkable character, which is the overarching subject of this sympathetic ...Show more
Albert Camus by Robert Zaretsky
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
On October 16, 1957, Albert Camus was dining in a small restaurant on Paris's Left Bank when a waiter approached him with news: the radio had just announced that Camus had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus insisted that a mistake had been made and that others were far more deserving of the honor ...Show more
Albert Camus: Elements of a Life by Robert Zaretsky
$37.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Like many others of my generation, I first read Camus in high school. I carried him in my backpack while traveling across Europe, I carried him into (and out of) relationships, and I carried him into (and out of) difficult periods of my life. More recently, I have carried him into university classes th ...Show more
Boswell's Enlightenment by Robert Zaretsky
$53.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswell s Enlightenment" examines the conflicting credos of reason and faith, progress and tradition that pulled B ...Show more
The Subversive Simone Weil - A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lycée students and organized union w ...Show more
The Subversive Simone Weil - A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught philosophy to lyc e students and organized union w ...Show more
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