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The Rebel (World Philosophers and Their Works)

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From French revolutionist Maximilien Robespierre to Soviet political leader Joseph Stalin, lovers of justice and equality have fallen time and again into contradiction and ended by outraging the humanity they were committed to save. The Rebel seeks to understand the failure of a century and a half of revolution and, by returning to its source in the spirit of revolt, to recover the ideal that has eluded the ideologues.

Albert Camus’s book is, in one respect, a history of the whole anti-God, antiauthoritarian movement in literature, philosophy, and...

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