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Original Title:	Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
ISBN:	0679764011 (ISBN13: 9780679764014)
Edition Language:	English

Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

Albert Camus

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 2578 Users | 120 Reviews

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In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Albert Camus said that a writer "cannot serve today those who make history; he must serve those who are subject to it." And in these twenty-three political essays, he demonstrates his commitment to history's victims, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War.
Resistance, Rebellion and Death displays Camus's rigorous moral intelligence addressing issues that range from colonial warfare in Algeria to the social cancer of capital punishment. But this stirring book is above all a reflection on the problem of freedom, and, as such, belongs in the same tradition as the works that gave Camus his reputation as the conscience of our century: The Stranger, The Rebel and The Myth of Sisyphus.

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Title	:	Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
Author	:	Albert Camus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	August 29th 1995 by Vintage (first published 1960)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Politics

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Albert Camus is one of the great consciences of the 20th century, along with Adam Michnik of Poland, Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia, and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn of Russia. The essays in Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays come from the 1940s and 1950s. The subjects dealt with include Nazism, Hungary (1956), capital punishment, Algeria, and the moral responsibility of the writer.The more I read of Camus, the more I admire him -- as a writer, as a philosopher, and as a political thinker. When

The fact that these essays resonated with me so strongly today shows we havent yet emerged successfully from the wager of our generation of liberty versus nihilism of which Camus speaks after World War Two.I very nearly docked a star because the essays regarding Algeria were so hypocritical coming after his towering Defense of Freedom essays, Camus was clearly far too close to the situation as a French-Algerian to see the situation without bias. I guess I shouldnt be surprised. It seems shocking



I believe one of the descriptions of this book by the publisher state that this collection of writings is a masterful demonstration of Camus' "moral intelligence" and I simply couldn't agree more. The political writings of Camus range from his time in the French Resistance to the Algerian War (itself a personal struggle for Camus) and finally to the crushed revolt in Hungary and other discourses on the evils of totalitarianism. Throughout the works, one gets a understanding of the idea of

The sheer positivity of the writing is infectious. It is full of brilliant insight into totalitarianism and how it can, indeed must, be resisted. I was particularly impressed by his argument against capital punishment, especially the interesting observation that over the course of the 20th century a person is just as, if not more, likely to be killed by the State than another individual; it is therefore important to protect the liberty of everyone by reducing the role of the State as omniscient,

My wife surprised me with this book this morning - a gift. Will be reading it soon.

A tour de force. One man, both artist and philosopher, tackling the great dilemmas and ideas of his time, with thought that is clean, bristling with energy and timeless. A superb collection of essays concerning topics from the French Resistance in WWII, racism and strife in French-Arab Algeria, the death penalty and the philosophy of art.