Albert Camus and the Human Crisis

A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis” that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus’s life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, “cannot live without dialogue and friendship.”

As France—and all of the world—was emerging from the depths of World War II, Camus summed up what he saw as "the human crisis”:

We gasp for air among people who believe they are absolutely right, whether it be in their machines or their ideas....