Contents

Introduction
ERIC BERG

SECTION ONE: THE MEURSAULT INVESTIGATION PAPERS

Beyond Victims and Executioners: Camus and Daoud on “Progressive Violence” and Genuine Humanism (Or What Harun Learned from Meursault)
GEORGE HEFFERNAN

Meursault, contre-enquête or Daoud's Anachronistic Nonsense
VIRGINIE LUPO

The Narrative of The Meursault Investigation: Is it the Story of The Stranger, Told by Clamence’s Double?
MACIEJ KAŁUŻA

The Investigation Investigated and a Question of Responsibility
KATERINE VOITENOK

SECTION TWO: OTHER PAPERS

Death as the Harbinger of the Realization of Mortality in The Plague
MERLENE BINNY

Albert Camus the Legal Unconscious: Symbolic and Imaginary Dimensions in The Stranger
MICHAEL J. CLARK

The Absurdity of Acceptance through Belief: Meursault’s Dismissal of God and the Court System in The Stranger
DANIEL HENKE

Exploring the Concept of “Suicide” by Camus in Taufiq Rafat’s Play Foothold
SALEHA MALIK

Absurdism is Ecocritical and Ecocriticism is Absurd: The Joy of Eternal Damnation
ALEXANDRA ROWE

The Young Camus and the Atheistic Argument from Irreligious Experience
STEPHEN J. SULLIVAN

An Absurd Philosophy of Love
MICHAEL ANTHONY VILLANOVA

SECTION THREE: BOOK REVIEWS

Review: At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
JAMES WOELFEL

Journal of Camus Studies: Manuscript Submission Guidelines