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The Rebel
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Dec 01, 2015
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“They did not know; nor did they know that the negation of everything is in itself a form of servitude and
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.”
― The Rebel
that real freedom is an inner submission to a value which defies history and its successes.”
― The Rebel
Reading Progress
May 12, 2012
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(Paperback Edition)
October 13, 2013
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rebel
(Paperback Edition)
October 13, 2013
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manny
(Paperback Edition)
December 9, 2014
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take-up-again
(Paperback Edition)
December 9, 2014
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to-read
(Paperback Edition)
December 1, 2015
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Started Reading
December 1, 2015
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December 1, 2015
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2.56%
"A second reading. This time a hard cover with a foreword by Sir Herbert Read."
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7
December 4, 2015
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8.42%
""When he rebels, a man identifies himself with other men and, from this point of view, human solidarity is metaphysical.""
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23
December 5, 2015
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9.89%
""Unless we ignore reality, we must find our values in it. Is it possible to find a rule of conduct outside the realm of religion and of absolute values? That is the question raised by revolt.""
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27
December 8, 2015
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12.82%
""Logic founded on passions reverses the traditional sequence of reasoning and places the conclusions before the premises."
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Camus discusses Sade as the first case in Metaphysical rebellion. I am captivated as he explains what, according to him, isn't right with Sade's rebellion."
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Camus discusses Sade as the first case in Metaphysical rebellion. I am captivated as he explains what, according to him, isn't right with Sade's rebellion."
December 11, 2015
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15.38%
""....Sade is the perfect man of letters.He created a fable in order to give himself the illusion of esiting. He put 'the moral crime which is committed by writing' above everything else. His incontestable merit lies in having immediately demonstrated, with the unhappy perspicacity of accumulated rage, the extreme consequences of a rebel's logic-atleast when it forgets its true origins.""
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42
December 14, 2015
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18.68%
""With Ivan,however,the tone changes. God is put on trial,in His turn.If evil is essential to divine creation,then creation is unacceptable.Ivan will no longer have recourse to this mysterious God,but to a higher principle,namely justice.He launches the essential undertaking of rebellion,which is that of replacing the reign of grace by the reign of justice.""
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51
December 15, 2015
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20.51%
""For the moment,Ivan only offersus the tortured face of the rebel plunged in the abyss,incapable of action,torn between the idea of his own innocence and his desire to kill.He hates the death penalty because it is the image of the human condition,and,at the same time,he is drawn to crime.For having taken the side of mankind,solitude is his lot.With him the rebellion of reason ends in madness.""
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56
December 18, 2015
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22.71%
""From the moment that man believes neither in God nor in immortal life, he becomes 'responsible for everything alive, for everything that, born of suffering, is condemned to suffer from life'. It is to himself, and to himself alone, that he returns in order to find law and order. Then the time of exile begins, the endless search for justification, the nostalgia without an aim....."
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62
December 21, 2015
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28.21%
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. But,one day,nostalgia takes up arms and assumes the responsibility of total guilt;in other words,adopts murder and violence. The servile rebellions,the refocused revolutions and the twentieth century revolutions have thus, consciously,accepted a burden of guilt ....."
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77
December 24, 2015
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35.16%
"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads,with implacable logic,to the republic of the guillotine.Montesquieu had already denounced this logic as one of the causes of the decadence of societies,saying that the abuse of power is greatest when laws do not anticipate it."
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96
December 29, 2015
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40.66%
"The entire history of mankind is,in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.It is,in its essence, imperialist.We are far from the gentle savage of the eighteenth century and from the Social Contract.In the sound and fury of the passing centuries,each separate consciousness ,to ensure its existence,must henceforth desire the death of others."
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111
January 3, 2016
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43.59%
""But nothing can discourage the appetite for divintiy in the heart of man. Others have come and are still to come who, forgetting Waterloo, still claim to terminate history.The divinity of man is still on the march, and will only be worthy of adoration at the end of time.This apocalypse must be promoted and despite the fact that there is no God, at least a Church must be built.""
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119
January 5, 2016
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47.62%
"To destroy everything is to pledge oneself to building without foundations,and then to supporting the walls with one's arms. He who rejects the entire past,without keeping any part of it which could serve to breathe life into the revolution,condemns himself to finding justification only in the future and,in the meantime,to entrusting the police with the task of justifying the provisional state of affairs."
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130
January 9, 2016
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56.78%
""He who kills or tortures will only experience the shadow of victory:he will be unable to feel that he is innocent.Thus,he must create guilt in his victim so that,in a world that has no direction,universal guilt will authorize no other course of action but the use of force and give its blessing to nothing but success.""
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155
January 28, 2016
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65.57%
"What can man without God want and hope for,if not the kingdom of man? This explains the exaltation of all Marxist disciples. ' In a society without suffering, it is easy to ignore death,' says one of them. However, and this is the real condemnation of our society,fear of death is a luxury which is felt far more by the idler than the worker who is stifled by his own occupation."
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179
February 5, 2016
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74.73%
"The cynical intervention of the armies of the Western Powers against the Soviet Revolution demonstrated, among other things, to the Russian revolutionaries that war and nationalism were realities in the same category as the class struggle. Without an international solidarity of the working classes, a solidarity which would come into play automatically, no interior revolution could be considered likely to survive...."
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204
February 7, 2016
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80.95%
""Before doing so( examining the rebellion in its pure state), let us only note that to the 'I rebel, therefore we exist' and the 'We are alone' of the metaphysical rebellion, rebellion at grips with history adds that instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.""
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February 14, 2016
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favorites
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classics
February 14, 2016
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February 14, 2016
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February 14, 2016
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February 14, 2016
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February 14, 2016
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February 14, 2016
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powerful-stuff
February 14, 2016
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rebel
February 15, 2016
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Finished Reading
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Dec 18, 2015 06:06PM
Powerful. Yet another book you have pulled up for me to read!
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Glad to know that,Dale.
which part of the book you enjoyed the most ?
I've been following all of your updates, Rakhi. It certainly sounds like a fascinating book.
Yassine wrote: "which part of the book you enjoyed the most ?"The final chapter "Thought at the Meridian". The chapter "Rebellion and Art" seemed to echo Camus' thoughts on Absurd Creation from The Myth of Sisyphus. Whereas the initial chapters were an introduction to the idea of rebellion and understanding it in terms of history, it was the final chapter which gave a clarity regarding his proposed ideas of rebellion and revolution. And I may add that it posed many questions too.
Florencia wrote: "I've been following all of your updates, Rakhi. It certainly sounds like a fascinating book."It is indeed,Florencia :) And very engrossing too!
Smashing one-liner review, Rakhi! A timely reminder to pick another Camus. And I hope you are doing good :)
Well, I do love your reviews, but to have you review a Camus! No pressure, but eagerly awaiting your thoughts on this :D
Seemita wrote: "Smashing one-liner review, Rakhi! A timely reminder to pick another Camus. And I hope you are doing good :)"I am doing good,thanks :) I hope you enjoy reading him further :)
Vipassana wrote: "Well, I do love your reviews, but to have you review a Camus! No pressure, but eagerly awaiting your thoughts on this :D"Thanks for the encouragement, Vipassana. I hope I will be able to gather enough courage to review this tome :)
Rakhi, I'm just hopeless getting to reviews. I miss so many.You said so much in your one liner but your other comments are splendid. As you know, I'm a great Camus lover.
I hope you're well. I really miss your reviews.
