LeBlanc, John Randolph

About the author: John Randolph LeBlanc (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Tyler where he teaches political theory and American constitutional law. He has published scholarly articles on the intersection of politics and art in Literature and Theology, Southeastern Political Review, and Contemporary Political Theory as well as on the interplay of political theory and literary theory in Strategies: Journal of Theory, Politics, and Culture.

Ethics and Creativity in the Political Thought of Simone Weil and Albert Camus

2004 0-7734-6567-7
This work of political theory traces, for the first time in a book-length work, the critical development of the idea of creativity in politics through the intellectual relationship of Simone Weil and Albert Camus. Assessing their separate but complementary attempts to bring aesthetic considerations of beauty and order to bear on an ethical conception of political life, the book calls into question both a purely aestheticized picture of reality and postmodern tendency to see reality as a discontinuous discourses by emphasizing that which Weil and Camus believed the activities of labor and art share in common: the capacity and obligation to transform our perspective while respecting our physical and metaphysical limits.