Record Number |
790663 |
ISBN |
9780141182018 (paperback) |
Author |
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 author. |
Title |
The rebel / Albert Camus ; translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Olivier Todd. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Penguin Books, 2000. |
©2000 |
Pagination etc. |
xviii, 269 pages ; 20 cm. |
Series |
Penguin classics |
Contents note |
This translation originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1953. |
L'homme révolté first published 1951. |
Summary Note |
Camus described this brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'. Published in 1951, it expresses his horror at the events of a period which 'within fifty years, uproots, enslaves, or kills seventy million human beings'. Hope for the future, he argues, lies in revolt, which unlike revolution is a spontaneous response to injustice and a chance to achieve change without giving up individual or collective freedom. The Rebel created an irreconcilable rift between Camus and his friend Jean-Paul Sartre who bitterly attacked Camus for his criticism of communism. |
Language note |
Translated from the French. |
Subject |
Revolutions -- Philosophy |
Social change |
Shelf Location |
303.4 CAMU |