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...illustrates so well. In writings, there is no split the man as philosopher as political being: the values art inform the values of his and of his life. In perhaps modern thinker are the timely the timeless fused so tightly. reading of, for example, The will show, metaphysical and rebellion are one; Camus artist, the commentator...
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death a good introduction to Camus. curious are advised, by this at least, to begin with The of Slayphus and The Plague. for those already acquainted Camus' work, Knopf has here a powerful collection of essays and excerpts, some elsewhere in English, h will be a valuable addition any libraries...
...further development of this thought is in Why Spain?, a reply to Gabriel Marcel's stinging attack on Camus' play, Etat de Slege. Enslavement, metaphysical or historical, has only one answer--rebellion. And Camus is not "willing to keep silent about one reign of terror in order the better to combat another one". "The world I live in," he explains, "is loathsome to me. But I feel one with the men who suffer in it." Camus began, politically and philosophically, where his generation stopped: at despair. But in spite of and in a way because of despair, he continued...
This critic was among many who felt disappointed and a little betrayed when at the end of The Rebel, Camus defined his specific application of the values of rebellion to contemporary politics as "what is traditionally called revolutionary trade-unionism." Influenced no doubt by the use of the word "unions" in America, where it has come to mean something a little different, we thought Camus might be backing down. He wasn't. In a speech titled Bread and Freedom, addressed to a meeting of Parisian workingmen in 1953, he explains: "I have recognized only two aristocracies, that of labor...
...life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, he is suppress that freedom, temporarily." And read; "One even have to fight a in the of a quarter-truth." Rebellion neither nor accepts rebellion against anything that minishes man, rebellion not in name of what will happen but what might happen--this is wager of Albert Camus. As a journalist, as an Underground fight as a man, never less in action in words, Camus struggled to worthy of his own ideals...