The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

by Albert Camus

Overview

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

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. 

Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679733843
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	80,646
Product dimensions:	5.15(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Editorial Reviews

"The Rebel is a piece of reasoning in the great tradition of French logic....But what is so exhilarating about Camus's essay is that here is the voice of a man of unshakable decency." — Atlantic

"Camus's book is one of the extremely few that express the contemporary hour...yet profoundly transcend it." — New Republic

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