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| Original Title: | Ni Victimes, ni bourreaux |
| ISBN: | 0865710856 (ISBN13: 9780865710856) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Albert Camus
Library Binding | Pages: 64 pages Rating: 4.18 | 161 Users | 23 Reviews
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| Title | : | Neither Victims Nor Executioners |
| Author | : | Albert Camus |
| Book Format | : | Library Binding |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 64 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 1986 by Library Company of Philadelphia (first published November 1946) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Writing. Essays. Nonfiction. Politics. Cultural. France |
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A reprinting of a series of essays written by Camus originally appearing serially in the 1946 Fall issues of "Combat," a French resistance newspaper published during WWII. In the essays he discusses violence, murder & the impact these have on those who perpetrate, suffer or observe. (These essays, orginally written in French, were translated into English by Dwight Macdonald & were 1st published in the July-August issue of "Politics." With Mcadonald's permission, they were republished in this volume.)Camus' essays deal with the future of politics & human society in the era of modern warfare & totalitarian states.
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Ratings: 4.18 From 161 Users | 23 ReviewsJudge Of Books Neither Victims Nor Executioners
"History is simply man's desperate effort to give body to his most clairvoyant dreams." Insightful and interesting read.The world had seen enough of men and women dying for causes; it was time to live for one. 'Neither Victims nor Executioners' appeared serially in the autumn of 1946 in Combat, the daily newspaper of the Resistance, which Camus helped edit during the Nazi occupation and for a short time after the war
Ziemlich aktueller Text, der im Feld des Politischen klar macht, wie sehr Camus das Absurde in der Unaufhebbarkeit von Widersprüchen gegründet sieht. Diese sind ihm freilich keine "objektiven" oder "historischen" Widersprüche, sondern solche, die dem Menschlichen entspringen, eine Haltung, die dem klassischen "Humanismus" widerspricht. Gern hätte der Autor die Menschen "gut", allein, sie sind es nicht, was man kurz nach WK II wohl umstandslos anerkennen musste. Inmitten dieser Hoffnungslosigkeit
The 17th century was the century of mathematics, the 18th that of physical sciences, and the 19th that of biology. Out 20th century is the century of fear.a man with whom one cannot reason is a man to be feared.if the moral values extolled by the Socialist Party [the end does not justify the means] are legitimate, then Marxism is absolutely false since it claims to be absolutely true. [In the Marxian perspective, a hundred thousand corpses are nothing if they are the price of the happiness of
An important essay that should have been read by my grandparents and parents and used to resolve the world's problems before I came into existence.
it's interesting. 5 stars for Cumus essay & 3 for introduction.
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