Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity: Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence - Paperback

by Matthew H. Bowker (Author)

In Rethinking Absurdity, Matthew H. Bowker offers a surprising account of absurdity as a widespread endeavor to make parts of our experience meaningless. Drawing upon diverse sources from philosophy, literature, politics, psychoanalysis, theology, and contemporary culture, Bowker identifies the absurd effort to make aspects of our histories, our selves, and our public projects meaningless with postmodern revolts against reason and subjectivity. Rethinking Absurdity will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of political science, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies

Author Biography

Matthew H. Bowker, Ph.D. is Visiting Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at Medaille College. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he applies psychoanalytic and literary-critical approaches to topics in political philosophy. He is the author of numerous books, journal articles, and chapters, including Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity: Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence (Routledge, 2014).