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by Albert Camus

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Published by Penguin Bolsillo · Philosophy and religion · ISBN 9788466356169

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A 1951 essay in which Albert Camus examines rebellion, both individual and collective, from the Enlightenment to the revolutions of the twentieth century. It falls into three parts: metaphysical rebellion, with figures such as Sade, the Romantics and the Surrealists; historical rebellion, with anarchism and revolutionary movements; and the link between art and rebellion. Camus argues for rebellion over revolution and rejects violence carried out in the name of an idea.

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For readers of philosophy and political thought, and for those who know Camus from his novels and want to read his most ambitious essay. It takes up the question of The Myth of Sisyphus and gives it a different answer.
Why people still read it
It was controversial from the start: Jean-Paul Sartre replied with a critique in Les Temps modernes in 1952, and many European Communists called it reactionary. Hannah Arendt wrote to Camus that she had liked it, and some scholars consider it his most important philosophical book.

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