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THE REBEL
(L’Homme Revolt)
by ALBERT CAMUS
With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read
Translated by Anthony Bower
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1953. First UK Edition, First Printing (and first English edition, preceding the American edition by Knopf in 1954). Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, edge chips and tears to dj, now in archival mylar wrapper. No previous owner’s signature or bookplate, small bookseller sticker to rear endpaper. 8vo, 273 pages.
The Rebel is Camus’ classic essay on revolution. For 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 reveals 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.
Albert Camus was a French-Algerian philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
Camus was born in French Algeria to Pieds Noirs parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism. He was part of many organisations seeking European integration. During the Algerian War (1954–1962), he kept a neutral stance, advocating for a multicultural and pluralistic Algeria, a position that caused controversy and was rejected by most parties.
Philosophically, Camus\'s views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. Some consider Camus\'s work to show him to be an existentialist, even though he himself firmly rejected the term throughout his lifetime.
Continental philosophy, Absurdism, Existentialism, Existentialist anarchism, French Nietzscheanism, Syndicalist anarchism
Loc: E17
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THE REBEL
(L’Homme Revolt)
by ALBERT CAMUS
With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read
Translated by Anthony Bower
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1953. First UK Edition, First Printing (and first English edition, preceding the American edition by Knopf in 1954). Very good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, edge chips and tears to dj, now in archival mylar wrapper. No previous owner’s signature or bookplate, small bookseller sticker to rear endpaper. 8vo, 273 pages.
The Rebel is Camus’ classic essay on revolution. For 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 reveals 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.
Albert Camus was a French-Algerian philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
Camus was born in French Algeria to Pieds Noirs parents. He spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood and later studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He was in Paris when the Germans invaded France during World War II in 1940. Camus tried to flee but finally joined the French Resistance where he served as editor-in-chief at Combat, an outlawed newspaper. After the war, he was a celebrity figure and gave many lectures around the world. He married twice but had many extramarital affairs. Camus was politically active; he was part of the left that opposed Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union because of their totalitarianism. Camus was a moralist and leaned towards anarcho-syndicalism. He was part of many organisations seeking European integration. During the Algerian War (1954–1962), he kept a neutral stance, advocating for a multicultural and pluralistic Algeria, a position that caused controversy and was rejected by most parties.
Philosophically, Camus\'s views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. Some consider Camus\'s work to show him to be an existentialist, even though he himself firmly rejected the term throughout his lifetime.
Continental philosophy, Absurdism, Existentialism, Existentialist anarchism, French Nietzscheanism, Syndicalist anarchism
Loc: E17
