Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: EssaysNOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus' rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel, and The Myth of Sisyphus. |
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Page 115
... hence obliged to denounce or approve them . But , to be both useful and equitable , we must con- demn with equal force and in no uncertain terms the terrorism applied by the F.L.N. to French civilians and indeed , to an even greater ...
... hence obliged to denounce or approve them . But , to be both useful and equitable , we must con- demn with equal force and in no uncertain terms the terrorism applied by the F.L.N. to French civilians and indeed , to an even greater ...
Page 230
... Hence we cannot be too wary of the humani- tarian ideology in dealing with a problem such as the death penalty . On the point of concluding , I should like therefore to repeat that neither an illusion as to the natural goodness of the ...
... Hence we cannot be too wary of the humani- tarian ideology in dealing with a problem such as the death penalty . On the point of concluding , I should like therefore to repeat that neither an illusion as to the natural goodness of the ...
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... Hence the question is not to find out if this is or is not prejudicial to art . The question , for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies , is merely to find out how , among the police forces of so many ideologies ...
... Hence the question is not to find out if this is or is not prejudicial to art . The question , for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies , is merely to find out how , among the police forces of so many ideologies ...
Contents
LETTERS TO A GERMAN FRIEND | 1 |
THE BLOOD OF FREEDOM | 35 |
PESSIMISM AND COURAGE | 57 |
Copyright | |
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