- Bib ID:
- 2387969
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
- Description:
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- London : Hamish Hamilton, 1953
- 273 p. ; 23 cm.
- Notes:
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- Translated by Anthony Bower from the French: L'homme révolté.
- The history of metaphysical and political revolt, the one a rebellion against creation and the human condition and for order, the other of the slave against the master, merge in our time in the nihilistic Russian revolution and Hitler regime. M. Camus reviews the histories of these movements with a brilliant and fertile interpretation of the concepts of the Marquis de Sade, Baudelaire and the Dandys, Dostolevsky, Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx, and others. He conceives of revolt as an essentially positive act, at once against and for something. Through it man is preparing a renaissance beyond the limits of nihilism. Man's hope lies in the rebel who revolts in the name of moderation and life, who joins through his act in the common fate, who tempers his revolt with a restraint that leads away from the vicious circling to successive dictatorships.-- Kirkus reviews, 1954.
- Subject:
- Social conflict
- Other authors/contributors:
- Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
- Copyright:
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