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Албер Камю: за двойния императив на изкуството
Albert Camus: the Double Imperative of Art

Author(s): Tatyana Batuleva
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: the absurd; rebellion; art; measure; solitude; solidarity; realism; „l’art pour l’art“; socialist realism; double imperative.

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the various hypostases of art in the works of Albert Camus. These include: art as a response to the absurd; as a corrected creation of reality; as authentic rebellion and a measure between „no“ and „yes“. The author argues that Camus sees the work of art as always being the result of a double imperative: it lies between „intellectual rationalism“ and „divine irrationalism”; it is born from solitude and solidarity; it is responsible to beauty and to the oppressed. This double imperative does not lead to mutual cancellation of the terms or to the synthesis of reconciliation, but maintains a space of tension and aporia.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 149-157
  • Page Count: 9
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