Ethics and aesthetics: possibilities for a Theory of Novel in Albert Camus

• Grant number: 17/04259-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: June 20, 2017
• End date: December 19, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Arlenice Almeida da Silva
• Grantee: Gilberto Bettini Bonadio
• Supervisor: Auroy Mohn Carole
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université d'Angers, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/04890-6 - Thinking in pictures : philosophy and literature in the work of Albert Camus, BP.DR

Abstract

In the book "The Rebel", the chapter "Revolt and Art" shows the ethical and metaphysical meaning of the novel which, in its own creative movement, proposes the "correction" of the real world so that man finds the limits and the form that would assign a meaning to the their experiences; Once Camus sees a form that suggests another value to human life in the artistic activity, the aesthetic creation is then constituted as a supreme activity by which man confers meaning to the existence marked by the absurd. From there on, we intend to investigate the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in the Camusian thinking and its implications for a possible theory of the novel in Camus. (AU)