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The rebel / Albert Camus ; with a foreword by Sir Herbert Read ; translated from the French by Anthony Bower.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Penguin Books, 2013Description: xii, 260 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141182018 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 170 CAM 022587
Contents:
Foreword / by Sir Herbert Read -- Author's introduction -- The rebel -- Metaphysical rebellion. The sons of Cain ; The rejection of salvation ; Absolute affirmation ; Nihilism and history -- Historical rebellion. The regicides ; The deicides ; Individual terrorism ; State terrorism and irrational terror ; State terrorism and rational terror ; Rebellion and revolution -- Rebellion and art. Rebellion and the novel ; Rebellion and style ; Creation and revolution -- Thought at the meridian. Rebellion and murder ; Moderation and excess ; Beyond Nihilism.
Summary: This book is a classic essay on revolution. For the author, 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.
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Foreword / by Sir Herbert Read -- Author's introduction -- The rebel -- Metaphysical rebellion. The sons of Cain ; The rejection of salvation ; Absolute affirmation ; Nihilism and history -- Historical rebellion. The regicides ; The deicides ; Individual terrorism ; State terrorism and irrational terror ; State terrorism and rational terror ; Rebellion and revolution -- Rebellion and art. Rebellion and the novel ; Rebellion and style ; Creation and revolution -- Thought at the meridian. Rebellion and murder ; Moderation and excess ; Beyond Nihilism.

This book is a classic essay on revolution. For the author, 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 French.

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