When did Albert Camus publish The Rebel?
Albert Camus published The Rebel in 1951 as a direct sequel to his earlier work The Myth of Sisyphus.
Albert Camus published The Rebel in 1951 as a direct sequel to his earlier work The Myth of Sisyphus.
Camus examines the French Revolution where revolutionaries aimed to kill God through execution of Louis XVI and subsequently eradicated the divine right of kings to establish materialist idealism seeking the end of history.
Camus explicitly condemns Marxism-Leninism and denounces unrestrained violence as a means of human liberation because systematic violence of ideology appeared to him wholly unjustifiable despite good ends never authorizing use of evil means.
Jean-Paul Sartre published a critical response to The Rebel in 1952 within the review Les Temps modernes which marked a public break between two major figures of twentieth-century philosophy.
Contemporary scholars analyze the book's enduring influence on discussions regarding freedom tyranny and terrorism with David Simpson writing for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy describing it as reflection on nature of freedom and rebellion plus philosophical critique of revolutionary violence.