MY LIBERTY is absolute,” said the nihilist to the Englishman. “There is nothing which prevents me from punching you in the nose if I wish to.” “Oh, yes, there is,” replied the Englishman, “Your ...

I've been rereading Camus, chiefly the stories collected in Exile and the Kingdom and the long essay "The Rebel". They belong together. Anyone looking around must see the need for the revolt that ...

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” The man who taught us freedom, existence and rebellion, each of which seems ...

For Albert Camus there were always two tyrants: history and the universe. The winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature found the deck stacked against contemporarty man, and then demanded that man ...

The intellectual had little faith in rationalism and existentialism but devoted his life to opposing nihilism “Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear,” wrote Albert Camus, who died 54 ...

FOLEY, John, Albert Camus. From the Absurd to the Revolt, Montréal / Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008, 288 p.