Full name: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Author: Albert Camus Year: 1951 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Classic, Politics, History Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679733843 0679733841

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. 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. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower. Similar books: The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus The Stranger by Albert Camus The Fall by Albert Camus The First Man by Albert Camus A Happy Death by Albert Camus Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism by Thomas Flynn The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness by Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell