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Original Title:	L'homme révolté
ISBN:	0679733841 (ISBN13: 9780679733843)
Edition Language:	English

The Rebel

Albert Camus

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.15 | 11488 Users | 448 Reviews

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Title	:	The Rebel
Author	:	Albert Camus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1992 by Vintage (first published 1951)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Classics. Cultural. France

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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. 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, as old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.

Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.

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i think camus' ambitions far outdistanced his abilities in this work. he's a great novelist, but not really a philosopher. this book seems to be an attempt to place himself alongide of sartre in french philosophy of his time. camus attempts to create a coherent philosophical system to address revolution and it just comes across as ramblings. the book doesn't make much sense and isn't really any good. camus addresses the human condition much more effectively in his novels and the myth of

There was a time a few years ago when I read a lot of Camus, there was a big binge on him in fact, as I was deeply interested in his work, both fiction and non-fiction. But that interest slowly started to wear down and he was eventually nudged aside, because, dare I say it, I'd had enough of him. Not because he wasn't a brilliant writer, of course he was, but because I simply read too much of him. Well, I really should have read this back then, when his books really fascinated me more. Camus

'Rebellion, in its most radical sense, leads to tyranny' so argues Camus in this extended essay which begins, as these things tend to, with the Greeks, and includes a significant discussion on the ideas of French thinkers from the Marquis de Sade down regarding rebellion. A fantastic introduction to the works of many thinkers unknown outside the Francophone world, and a stimulating discussion on those-- i.e. Milton and Blake, more familiar to us in the English-speaking world.

This is the sort of book that gives intellectuals a bad name. I approached it with some expectation as a book which looked seriously at the idea of the Rebel, but found out that in his 'history' of 'rebellious' events Camus quite deliberately defines the word to represent only what he wants it to mean, and conveniently dismisses any other views as either immaterial to his thesis, or as a subject for some other work. I found myself disagreeing with just about ever second statement he makes. Camus

530. L'Homme révolté = The Rebel, Albert CamusThe Rebel is a 1951 book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, especially Western Europe. Camus relates writers and artists as diverse as Epicurus and Lucretius, the Marquis de Sade, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Stirner, André Breton, and others in an integrated, historical portrait of man in revolt.

This latter work by Camus discusses the implications of rebellion namely that when a slave says no to a command and rebels a master they are not only saying no but implicitly saying yes to a certain value either in themselves or in the name of shared humanity. Such rebellions put boundaries around the master. Thus far no further. However, since 1789 rebellions began to succeed and the problem of the use of violence in the service of values becomes a central problem. Murder in the service of

This was not an easy book, and on more than one level. I am always leary of philosophical arguments where the writers accepts only his own terms and definitions. Camus gets so wrapped up in his idea of a rebel that he approaches it as a universality. I really couldn't buy into his thought process after that.The best parts of the book for me were the discussion of revolution in France, along with the ideas of Rousseau and Saint-Just, and his references to The Brothers Karamazov. It made me very