He analyses the decreasing social importance of the king, god and of virtue and the development of nihilism.
The Rebel ( French: L'Homme révolté) is a 1951 book-length essay by Albert Camus, which treats both the metaphysical and the historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, especially Western Europe.Įxamining both rebellion and revolt, which may be seen as the same phenomenon in personal and social frames, Camus examines several ' countercultural' figures and movements from the history of Western thought and art, noting the importance of each in the overall development of revolutionary thought and philosophy.
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