Research Catalog

Title

The rebel; an essay on man in revolt. With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read. A rev. and complete translation of L'homme révolté by Anthony Bower.

Author

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960

Publication

New York, Vintage Books, 1956.

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Details

Additional Authors

Read, Herbert, 1893-1968

Description

xii, 306 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Vintage books, V30

Uniform Title

Homme révolté. English

Alternative Title

Homme révolté.

Subject

• Revolutions
• Philosophy

Genre/Form

Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The rebel -- Metaphysical rebellion. The sons of Cain ; Absolute negation ; The rejection of salvation ; Absolute affirmation ; The poets' rebellion ; 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.

LCCN

^^^56013684^/L/r832

OCLC

272752

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library