Albert Camus's early philosophical work - new sources and perspectives

该项目旨在修改阿尔伯特·加缪作为哲学家的发展历史。在加缪作为现代文学经典的普遍主导形象以及他作为艺术创造者的自我概念的背景下，它的主要目标是使加缪的哲学作品变得容易理解，重点放在仍然鲜为人知的青少年身上。由于加缪早期的哲学作品已经被广泛接受，这是通过集中于他的论文《基督教形而上学和新柏拉图主义》(1936)以及核心作品《西西弗的神话》(1942)来完成的。然而，在德语世界中，很少或根本没有人注意到上述的青少年，这对于更完整、更连贯地了解加缪的思想，特别是他的以欧洲和地中海为主题的文化哲学、他的人类学和他的美学是不可或缺的。在该项目范围内，将对加缪在1931年至1932年至1934年间创作的《青年时代》进行编辑、翻译成德文、进行评论，并向学者介绍其哲学意义。该项目的目的是为进一步研究提供重要的文本基础，为从语言学和哲学角度开发这些著作奠定基础，并通过对这些著作进行历史和系统的研究，为更好地塑造加缪形象做出贡献。

The project intends to revise the history of Albert Camus’s development as a philosopher. Against the background of the generally dominant image of Camus as a modern literary classic as well as his self-concept as a creator of art, its main goal is to make Camus’s philosophical works accessible with a focus on still largely unknown juvenilia. Insofar as Camus’s early philosophical work has already been widely received, this has been done by concentrating on his thesis "Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism" (1936) as well as on the central work "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). In the German-speaking world little or no attention, however, has been paid to the aforementioned juvenilia, which are indispensable for a more complete, coherent picture of Camus’s thought, especially his cultural philosophy with its leitmotifs of the European and the Mediterranean, his anthropology and his aesthetics. In the context of the project, Camus’s "Écrits de jeunesse", written between 1931/32 and 1934, will be edited, translated into German, commented, and made accessible to scholars with regard to their philosophical significance. The aim of the project is to provide further research with an important textual basis, to provide a foundation for a philological and philosophical exploitation of the writings, and to contribute to a more adequate image of Camus through historical and systematic studies of them.