20 Questions with Dr. George Heffernan

20 Questions with Dr. George Heffernan

George Heffernan Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College, he earned his B.A. and M.A. from The Catholic University of America and his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne, Germany. He also holds the highest degree in the German Language awarded by the Goethe Institute of Munich as well as the diploma of a State-Certified Translator and Interpreter for the German Language granted by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Bonn.

Enjoy this lively and engaging scholar of the very first order. Professor Heffernan has presented many papers on Camus and has been the skillful author of several articles on Camus that have shaped the way we think about Camus. especially: “‘Rien, rien n’avait d’importance et je savais bien pourquoi’ (‘Nothing, nothing mattered, and I well knew why’): The World According to Meursault—or A Critical Attempt to Understand the Absurdist Philosophy of the Protagonist of Albert Camus’s The Stranger”, Journal of Camus Studies 2 (2012), 221–259

A bit of a longer podcast at 1.37 but well worth your time.


Enjoy this wonderful conversation about Camus.

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Book Review of Albert Camus and the Men of Stone 1971

Book Review of Albert Camus and the Men of Stone 1971

A review of a book that is very hard to find: Albert Camus and the Men of Stone from 1971. It is a series of illuminating interviews of men who worked with Camus as coy editors, editors, printers, and...

13 Jul 202219min

Book Review: Albert Camus Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches: 1937-1958

Book Review: Albert Camus Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches: 1937-1958

A review by Dr. Berg of a new (2022) important book for the English reading audience. 34 lectures and speeches written by Camus on many important topics. Enjoy!

3 Jun 202227min

Question and Answer session 2 from the 2021 annual meeting of The Albert Camus Society

Question and Answer session 2 from the 2021 annual meeting of The Albert Camus Society

A fascinating look into how academic scholarship is advanced. This session is a recording of the question and answer session where the scholars that just presented their work to some of the top Camus ...

11 Mai 202234min

Peter Frencev's 2021 Address to The Albert Camus Society - Camus and Empathy

Peter Frencev's 2021 Address to The Albert Camus Society - Camus and Empathy

Whilst there is no mention of the empathy or ethics of Edith Stein in the fiction and non-fiction of Albert Camus, one can easily surmise that Camus, being a part of the Parisian café scene during the...

5 Apr 202229min

Gina Breen 2021 Address to The Albert Camus Society

Gina Breen 2021 Address to The Albert Camus Society

Gina Breen: ‘French-Algerian Exile’ Albert Camus’s L’Exil et le Royaume was Camus’s last official literary publication before his death in 1960. It is a collection of six short stories, published in 1...

24 Mar 202227min

Round One of Questions and Answers from the 2021 Meeting of The Albert Camus Society

Round One of Questions and Answers from the 2021 Meeting of The Albert Camus Society

In this episode you will here the finest Camus scholars engaging each other on their current research on Camus. It is here that our understanding of Camus and his work is really pushed in new directio...

22 Feb 202230min

Tom Hammer - Address to the Albert Camus Society 2021

Tom Hammer - Address to the Albert Camus Society 2021

In this episode Tom Hammer gives his paper to the Albert Camus Society's annual conference. The paper is titled "The Formal Structure of Existential Absurdity". It is a very engaging paper and a sligh...

3 Feb 202232min

George Heffernan - Address to the Albert Camus Society November 2021

George Heffernan - Address to the Albert Camus Society November 2021

In this podcast you will hear from one of the leading Camus scholars in the world. Professor Heffernan of Merrimack College has been widely published and quoted on Camus across the years. Enjoy this e...

31 Des 202137min

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