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

该项目旨在修订阿尔伯特·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，其主要目标是使加缪的哲学作品以仍在很大程度上未知的青少年为重点。就加缪早期的哲学著作已经被广泛接受而言，这主要集中在他的论文《基督教形而上学和新柏拉图主义》（1936）以及核心著作《西西弗斯的神话》（1942）上。然而，在德语世界，很少或根本没有注意到前面提到的少年，这对于加缪思想的更完整、连贯的图景是必不可少的，特别是他的文化哲学，其主题是欧洲和地中海，他的人类学和美学。在这个项目的背景下，加缪的“Écrits de jeunesse”，写于1931/32和1934年之间，将被编辑，翻译成德语，评论，并使学者们能够接触到他们的哲学意义。该项目的目的是为进一步的研究提供重要的文本基础，为对加缪作品的语言学和哲学开发提供基础，并通过对加缪作品的历史和系统研究，为更充分的加缪形象做出贡献。

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.