In L’Homme révolté (1951, published in English as The Rebel), Camus defines revolt from a perspective that greatly recalls Hegel’s “master-slave dialectic” elaborated in his Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). The existentialist philosopher, dedicated a book to the subject and was generally interested (in his intellectual career and in his life) in the conditions that make movements of revolt possible, within what are by the same token, impulses at one with human existence. In the history of thought, one of the authors who best explored, both in theory and in practice, the implications of being a rebel, was Albert Camus. Rebellion, in this sense, can be expressed in different arenas, from the personal and the subjective to the social and the historical. It’s a desire to say “no” to prevailing conditions, to stand up to reality, to face certain circumstances and to want to change them. You could say that rebellion is a feature of humanity.
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