ISBN Series Vintage International. Author Albert Camus. Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Release 19 September We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. Some of the techniques listed in The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url.
If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. Loved each and every part of this book. 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. Languages English. By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. Albert Camus - Author. Why is availability limited? Check out what's being checked out right now. Sign in Cancel.
It's the sort of feeling when you are reading more or less the way you usually do- a lot of attention here, too little attention there- and all the while you just know in your bones that you're going to have to re-read it. Such power, such insight, such scholarship, just a magnificent writer delving into some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Makiya is the kind of guy who is trying to suss out modern Iraq pre and post war! Wrinkled shirt, wacky walk, glasses, etc. So one day he comes bursting into a local cafe, waving a book in his hands. Guess who? Nov 27, Leonard rated it really liked it Shelves: philosophy. The Jacobins, rebelled against King and God and by making their principles divine, introduced the Reign of Terror. Nihilism went further and eliminated absolute principles and its rise during the second half of the nineteenth century created terrorists who renounced virtue and principles and who rebelled against reality and history by destroying them.
From the killing of gods to the killing of kings, rebellions had ushered in the terrors of Hitler and then of Stalin. The Soviets, in the name of the classless society in the future, a new heaven and a new earth where the lamb and the lion coexist, justified violence to guide the path of civilization, to force the end of history, the Marxist utopia.
Camus stated that absolute freedom leads to injustice and absolute justice stifles freedom and demonstrated it with examples from the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution. And he believed that only through moderation, by limiting freedom with justice and vice versa, could a possible solution emerge. Events in the past several decades have shown that his statement remains relevant in our time. From Timothy McVeigh to Al Qaeda to Anders Behring Breivik, we have seen terrorists kill in the name of their freedom, their absolute freedom, and of justice, their notion of absolute justice.
During the Arab Spring, rebels from various countries have fought against tyranny and toppled decades-old regimes to assert their freedom. Will they, having achieved their freedom, how will they proceed? The reader starts with an essential question: Who is the rebel? And ends with an incredibly perfect understanding.
Camus is not JUST a writer. View 2 comments. I usually don't read philosophical texts. Whenever I read one I have already forgotten what was said on a page once I've reached its bottom. Camus is completely different. He explains the world and other philosopher's work as no one else does and in a way that makes you understand everything he and others said.
I've read Camus's novels The Outsider and The Plague which are well written and easy to understand but neither of them was as outstanding as The Rebel. This man really deserved the Nobel in literature and it's a pity he died so young. As usual, Camus is brilliant. I have read most of his fiction and now I am slowly moving towards his nonfiction and philosophy books. I enjoy his insights, I enjoy how he analyses different theories and his critical thinking and I usually agree with most of his points.
If you like philosophy, you will like this one for sure. Mar 02, A. On page of Albert Camus's windy, long-form essay on the nature of rebellion, the failures of religion, Nihilism and Marxism, he approaches the point: "Man can master in himself everything that should be mastered. He should rectify in creation everything that can be rectified. And after he has done so, children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society.
Even by his greatest effort man can only propose to diminish arithmetically the sufferings of the world. But the injustice and the su On page of Albert Camus's windy, long-form essay on the nature of rebellion, the failures of religion, Nihilism and Marxism, he approaches the point: "Man can master in himself everything that should be mastered.
But the injustice and the suffering of the world will remain and, no matter how limited they are, they will not cease to be an outrage. Dimitri Karamazov's cry of 'Why? I'm aware the danger of this critique lurks in anachronism or an under appreciation for philosophy in general. For me, the mark of genius is not only the possession of knowledge, though that's a part of it.
It's the ability to transmit that knowledge in a way that illuminates something about the universe——and to do it in a coherent, timely fashion i. I'll bet students working on an MA in philosophy might get some miles out of this.
For the rest of us, try a Kindle Single. As I waded section to section, it usually felt like I understood the basic point. How the sprawling asides fit together is anyone's guess; Camus has much love for the trees but very little for the forest. He will rarely if ever reiterate a point, or demonstrate how it in conjunction with a previous subject advances his thesis.
This kind of obfuscation is typical of academic writing, a mutated subset of Standard English someone I think it might have been David Foster Wallace, or if not, it should have been called Academicese. You'll be hanging on to the bloated prose by your fingernails when all of the sudden you'll hit a sinkhole like: "A revolutionary action which wishes to be coherent in terms of its origins should be embodied in an active consent to the relative.
It would express fidelity to the human condition. Uncompromising as to its means, it would accept an approximation as far as its ends are concerned and, so that the approximation should become more and more accurately defined, it would allow absolute freedom of speech. Thus it would preserve the common existence that justifies its insurrection. And if there is some enlightened soul out there who can offer a simple explanation, please do, but expect my ready reply: "Why didn't Camus say that?
In fairness, there are some very profound moments in this work, mostly when Al lets himself go a little and serves his philosophizing with a side of the transcendent. These occasional moments of illumination are almost worth the slog. That is why art alone, by being equally inconsequential, is capable of grasping it. It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it——just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations.
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore. But at least he who consents to his own return and to the return of all things, who becomes and echo and an exalted echo, participates in the divinity of the world. Reading this book was very challenging but in the end it's well worth the effort. The message and core ideas of this book are so poignant and raw that it vastly outshines what I would consider to be its overly dense and confusing prose.
Camus takes the reader on a journey to the history of philosophy and historical revolutions. In concise anecdotes, covering the French Revolution to the Russian Revolutions, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Nietzsche, The Marquis de Sade and Surrealism; easily moving Reading this book was very challenging but in the end it's well worth the effort. In concise anecdotes, covering the French Revolution to the Russian Revolutions, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Nietzsche, The Marquis de Sade and Surrealism; easily moving from large historical context to the individual and back again.
I could not recommend this book enough to the right kind of reader. View all 3 comments. This is one book that I will unabashedly confirm my pride in having read.
It was that difficult. In the past I probably would have given up on it. But I picked it up in honor of Camus' th birthday and it would have been disrespectful to his memory to leave it unfinished. What's more, it was damn compelling and thought-provoking for a good chunk of the time. Not uniformly -- there was a ton of stuff that just flew over my head -- but all of the "Historical Rebellion" Part III , for inst Whew. Not uniformly -- there was a ton of stuff that just flew over my head -- but all of the "Historical Rebellion" Part III , for instance, was fascinating.
So what's he saying? These are the highlights as I understand them: To rebel is to affirm a collective humanity -- "I rebel, therefore we exist. But Revolution authorizes killing, so one of the biggest questions for proponents of Rebellion is whether or not murder is acceptable. If it is, you are on the road to "Totality," as Camus calls it, but which I think of as Despotism. If murder is not acceptable, you're pretty much screwed anyway because the State will silence you.
It concerns the Russian terrorists of the Socialist-Republican party in the early 20th century. These people, for Camus, were the perfect manifestation of rebellion in that they judiciously selected their targets, avoided incidental casualties, and voluntarily sacrificed their own lives in the wake of the murders they committed.
For Camus, voluntary self-sacrifice is the only conceivable justification for murder. Through death on both sides of the struggle, a new value can be given life. Camus then proceeds to convincingly dismantle Marxism, specifically its pretentions toward science and rationality.
And he returns again to the idea of limits, which is somewhat obscure the way he talks about it, but which actually makes sense the more you think about it. In this way he argues against Absolute Freedom, since that includes the freedom to kill and the freedom to reign over everyone else. Absolute Justice tramples upon freedom, since the common man is denied the freedom of determining what is just. The ideal road lies in both of them being limited and working together within those limits.
This is one of those books that makes your brain hurt. It was not a pleasurable read, but it was an important one, and occasionally an inspiring one. Whereas before I liked Camus a lot, now I love him. Not Bad Reviews pointblaek Sep 30, Brittany Binowski rated it really liked it.
Skip the pages in the middle of the book. Just read the beginning and the end. The background and history is long-winded and irrelevant, but the takeaways are golden.
Here's what I got from it: -The next great war is that between the artists and the conquerors. We don't know who will win, we just know that one of them will win. The problem with artists is that they can create, but they can't destroy. The victor, or th Skip the pages in the middle of the book.
The victor, or the real rebel, ideally needs to do both. He has no regard for preserving the past, is obsessed with what the fruit of his present moment will provide for the future. Camus, like me, has a deep respect and love!
I recommend reading the two side by side to see the parallels. The book constantly reminds me of Nietzsche's Zarathustra: "Fellow creators the creator seeks, those who grave new values on new tablets. Apr 30, The Wanderer rated it liked it. Jesus, I have never read someone who contradicts himself so much.
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