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Camus

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Rebel, the Revolt, and Revolt

The absurd arises from the tension that exists between human being's desire for happiness and meaning the world's refusal too provide. The philosophical dimension doesn't change, it develops from absurd to revolt. And soth the novel plague, is about the way in which resistance can be put up against oppressive regimes. Just as the plague, iis, is a metaphor for fachism and totalietarian regimes, natiism in the first instance, so revolt can tran translated into the practical, philosophic, political sphere.

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