The Artist as Cultural Guide: Camus' Post-Christian Asceticism

The French literary intellectual Albert Camus envisioned the artist as a cultural guide to a post-Christian culture. As a Parisian intellectual, he attempted to articulate secular values based upon the personality ideal of a literary ascetic to counter what Weber called an intellectualist civilizati...

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Main Author: Woolfolk, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 1986
In: Sociological analysis
Year: 1986, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 93-110
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