The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

ISBN-13:	9780679733843
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	65,722
Product dimensions:	5.15(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.65(d)

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.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. Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.