by Albert Camus
Camus traces the history of metaphysical and political rebellion from Prometheus through Sade, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and the revolutions of the twentieth century, showing how the rebel's legitimate 'no' repeatedly curdles into tyranny. He proposes a measured rebellion that honors human dignity without collapsing into nihilism or absolute ideology.
In this collection, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt references 4 other books.
It draws on The Myth of Sisyphus, Beyond Good and Evil and Existentialism Is a Humanism.
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Direct continuation of The Myth of Sisyphus: having established the absurd, Camus now asks what ethical and political conclusions follow, and answers with the ethics of revolt
Nietzsche is one of Camus's central interlocutors, named among the 'evil geniuses of contemporary Europe' alongside Hegel and Marx and analyzed at length
The Rebel's publication provoked the famous break with Sartre; Camus argues explicitly against the existentialist-Marxist synthesis Sartre was developing
Camus engages Plato's Republic in his analysis of the philosophical origins of political absolutism and the utopian temptation
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