The Rebel (
French:
L'Homme révolté) is a 1951 book-length
essay by
Albert Camus, which treats both the
metaphysical and the historical development of
rebellion and
revolution in
societies, especially
Western Europe. Camus relates writers and artists as diverse as
Epicurus and
Lucretius, the
Marquis de Sade,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Friedrich Nietzsche,
Max Stirner,
André Breton,
and others in an integrated, historical portrait of man in revolt.
Examining both rebellion and revolt, which may be seen as the same
phenomenon in personal and social frames, Camus examines several '
countercultural'
figures and movements from the history of Western thought and art,
noting the importance of each in the overall development of
revolutionary thought and philosophy. This work has received ongoing
interest, influencing modern philosophers and authors such as
Paul Berman and others.
Fred Rosen has examined the influence of ideas of
Simone Weil on Camus' thinking in
The Rebel. George F Selfer has analysed parallels between Camus and Friedrich Nietzsche in philosophical aesthestics
wikipedia
download this book pdf from here
