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1、AlbertCamusTheRebelAnEssayonManinRevoltWithaForewordbySirHerbertReadArevisedandcompletetranslationofl'hommerevoltebyAnthonyBowerFIRSTVINTAGEINTERNATIONALEDITION,NOVEMBER1991Copyright©1956byAlfredA.Knopf,Inc.ISBN:0679733841ForewordWiththepublicationofthisbookacloud
2、thathasoppressedtheEuropeanmindformorethanacenturybeginstolift.Afteranageofanxiety,despair,andnihilism,itseemspossibleoncemoretohope—tohaveconfidenceagaininmanandinthefuture.M.Camushasnotdeliveredusbyrhetoric,orbyanyoftheartsofpersuasion,butbytheclarityofhisintell
3、igence.Hisbookisaworkoflogic.Justasanearlierworkofhis(LeMythedeSisyphe)beganwithameditationonlivingornotliving—ontheimplicationsoftheactofsuicide—sothisworkbeginswithameditationonenduringornotenduring—ontheimplicationsoftheactofrebellion.Ifwedecidetolive,itmustbeb
4、ecausewehavedecidedthatourpersonalexistencehassomepositivevalue;ifwedecidetorebel,itmustbebecausewehavedecidedthatahumansocietyhassomepositivevalue.Butineachcasethevaluesarenot"given"—thatistheillusionisttrickplayedbyreligionorbyphilosophy.Theyhavetobededucedfromt
5、heconditionsofliving,andaretobeacceptedalongwiththesufferingentailedbythelimitsofthepossible.Socialvaluesarerulesofconductimplicitinatragicfate;andtheyofferahopeofcreation.TheRebel,thatistosay,offersusaphilosophyofpolitics.ItisakindofbookthatappearsonlyinFrance,de
6、voted,inapassionateintellectualsense,totheexaminationofsuchconceptsaslibertyandterror.Notthatitisatheoreticalwork—onthecontrary,itisanexaminationoftheactualsituationofEuropetoday,informedbyaprecisehistoricalknowledgeofthepasttwocenturiesofitssocialdevelopment.Itis
7、"anattempttounderstandthetimes."Camusbelievesthatrevoltisoneofthe"essentialdimensions"ofmankind.Itisuselesstodenyitshistoricalreality—ratherwemustseekinitaprincipleofexistence.Butthenatureofrevolthaschangedradicallyinourtimes.Itisnolongertherevoltoftheslaveagainst
8、themaster,noreventherevoltofthepooragainsttherich;itisametaphysicalrevolt,therevoltofmanagainsttheconditionsoflife,againstcreationitself.Atthesametime,i
