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...this quality that gives Camus a solar power in times of cant and moral squalor. Unlike his fellow anti-colonialists, Camus was never willing to issue a license to kill. Of rebel atrocities he writes, "The truth, alas, is that part of French opinion vaguely holds that the Arabs have in a way earned the right to slaughter and mutilate, while another part is willing to justify in a way all excesses. To justify himself, each relies on the other's crime. But that is a casuistry of blood, and it strikes me that an intellectual cannot become involved...
...Camus's literary works have never gone out of print, but his message has often been muted or ignored. Until now. In America he is a part of the curriculum on almost every campus; even in France, where he was almost pathologically rejected by Sartre's followers, he is being rehabilitated. Says Historian Christian Jambet, 29, whose analysis of revolution, L'Ange, has become a modern classic...
...Camus was saying that those who demand liberty and who then kill are no longer worthy of being loved. It is a message that is important to us today." Agrees New Philosopher Jean-Marie Benoist...
...have several Camus. You have the Camus who was a guru for the left in the '50s, and you have the philosopher. As to the Camus who was the leftist, he at least had the lucidity to be aware of the Soviet concentration camps. The Camus who is the most near us now is the Camus who said he will denounce tyranny and fascism not only when it is on the extreme right but also when it is on the extreme left...
...Camus is coming back into relevance because of his ethical point of view. The current views on human rights are very much in debt to Camus's approach...