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Name: Imagining Camus Naked
Authors: Storey, Mark
Published Date: 6 Jan. 2022
Indexed Date: 24 Jul. 2024
Web Link: https://naturistsociety.com/2022/01/06/imagining-camus-naked/
Index Status: Complete
Original Language: English
Genre: Non-Fiction
Citation: Storey, Mark. “Imagining Camus Naked.” The Naturist Society, 6 Jan. 2022, https://naturistsociety.com/2022/01/06/imagining-camus-naked/

Summary

The French journalist and philosopher, Albert Camus, found joy in being naked under the sun along North African shorelines and often referenced swimming and skinny-dipping in his work. Camus appreciated the sensuousness and joy of nature but did not romanticize it excessively, and his ambiguous attitude toward naturism is worth examining. Although enjoying nudity and bodlily contact with nature, he did not advocate a crass form of sensualism or ethical hedonism.