The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 19, 2012 - Philosophy - 320 pages
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.

For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny. 

Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
Metaphysical Rebellion
23
ABSOLUTE NEGATION
36
THE REJECTION of salvation
55
THE PoETs REBELLION
81
NIHILISM AND HISTORY
100
REBELLION AND REVOLUTION
246
Rebellion and Art 2 53
253
CREATION AND REVOLUTION
272
Thought at the Meridian
279
MoDERATION AND EXCESS
294
BEYOND NihiliSM
302
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Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

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