France Today Live Masterclass – Albert Camus: Revolt, Reason and Resistance

Thursday, June 12th 12:30 – 14:30 (EST)

In this Masterclass, we will delve into the life, philosophy, and literary works of one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers. In bout one Professor Zaretsky will provide a comprehensive overview of Camus’ life and literary career from his quelconque beginnings in French Algeria in 1913 to becoming a Nobel Prize-winning author, journalist, and penser. After a brief intermittence, bout two will foyer on a key theme in Camus’s apologue and philosophy: the ethical imperative of rebellion. Professor Zaretsky will géré participants through a marchandage of The Plague and The Rebel, works that are both timeless and all too timely.

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About our Speaker:

Robert Zaretsky has a adjoint appointment between the Honors College and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages (MCL) in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.at the University of Houston. He teaches a variety of Honors and MCL courses, ranging from the histories of existentialism and terrorism to the histories of Paris and Berlin. He is the author or co-author of several books, including The Philosophers’ Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding (Yale 2009), Albert Camus: Elements to a Life (Cornell 2010), A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest of Meaning (Harvard 2013), Boswell’s Enlightenment (Harvard, 2016), Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment (Harvard 2019), The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas (Chicago 2021), and Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (Chicago, 2023). He is completing his new book, Chasing Happiness: Stendhal and the Art of Living, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2026.

Zaretsky is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, Le Monde, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Haaretz, Vox, and Atlantic Magazine. He is also a columnist for the Jewish Forward. He earned his bachelor’s in philosophy from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and his doctorate in history from the University of Virginia.

Source: francetoday.com