“Albert Camus: the Union of Differences”, a political perspective

Categories: Literature
Date: 21/03/2018
Time: 18 h 30 - 20 h 30
Location: Librebook
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Presentation of the newly published essay “Albert Camus: l’union des differences” with the author Alessandro Bresolin, introduced by Jean-Francis Billion, Presse Federaliste.

Albert Camus, famous especially for his novels, was long forgotten as a critical and militant intellectual without a party. Only recently his political legacy was moved out of the shadow cone caused by the controversy with Sartre. His positions on the liberal left, in the context of a cold war dominated by the logic of “with me or against me”, fell into the void, being considered as inactual. But today, it is precisely the coherence and the sincerity of Camus’ positions on Franco’s regime, on the Soviet politics and communism, on Algerian question, on European federalism and about the need for a new Mediterranean policy or world citizenship, which provide us with solid intellectual tools to read in a new way our past and better understand our present. In French and English.