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The rebel : an essay on man in revolt / Albert Camus ; with a foreword by Herbert Read ; a revised and complete translation of L'Homme révolté by Anthony Bower.
LIBRA - Special BJ1406 .C32 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.
- Standardized Title:
- Homme révolté. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutions.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 306 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage International edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1991.
- Summary:
- This book is a classic essay on revolution. For the author, 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.
- Contents:
- The rebel
- Metaphysical rebellion
- Historical rebellion
- Rebellion and art
- Thought at the Meridian.
- Notes:
- Translation of: L'Homme révolté.
- ISBN:
- 9780679733843
- 0679733841
- OCLC:
- 23941089
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