![]() ![]() ![]() Either Camus (1913-1960) is far better known for his ideas related to the absurd found in The Myth of Sisyphus ( Le Mythe de Sisyphe, 1942) than to those involving revolt in The Rebel ( L’Homme révolté, 1951), or - and perhaps not unrelatedly - despite the sheer magnitude and scope of the latter essay and the renowned falling out with Sartre that has in no small part been attributed to the stance taken by Camus in this second major philosophical work - Camus’s writings about and personal commitment to revolt remain far less appreciated and/or understood than those addressing the absurd. ![]() As unscientific as the results of such a query may be, a fanciful surfer of the Web might well be led to at least one of two simple conclusions. Googling conjointly the terms “Albert Camus” and “absurd” yields nearly two and a half million hits, whereas replacing the word “absurd” with “revolt” and running the search again reveals far fewer hits - only a little over one hundred thousand. ![]()
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