by Albert Camus
"Rebellion is a part of man: man rebels against the place assigned to him in society, against the assigned status, against the way he is perceived. Man revolts both against his finitude and against the idea of the existence of God; he rebels against himself, against others, against the invisible, unreal, against the system which he lives in, with difficulty. In his 1951 essay, a sort of "sequel" to The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus illustrates various types of rebellion with numerous examples from history and literature, including Marx, Nietzsche, De Sade, Lenin, Hitler, Dostoyevsky, and so on. Analyzing the various reflexes of rebellion - from regicides, through left-wing revolutions to suicide - in relation to historicity, geopolitical and philosophical issues, The Rebellious Man represents relevant and stimulating literature even in modern times about the path that an individual undertakes towards his own and other people's freedom because "man is the only creature that refuses to be who he is". " --
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