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- David Hume



Saturday, July 1, 2017

Camus and the Theory of Revolt (in a nutshell)

Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.[1]

                                                                       - Albert Camus, L’Homme revolté (1951).




[1] Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on a Man in Revolt, tr. Anthony Bower (New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1991), p. 19.  While written between 1947 and 1951, Camus’ work also reflects his underground activities, begun in 1942, with the French Resistance network known as “Combat”.  Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, and died an untimely death by car accident in January 1960, at the age of 46.