L’Homme Révolté. [The Rebel].

CAMUS, Albert.

$5,500.00

Item Number: 137305

Paris: Gallimard, 1951.

First edition, review copy (marked “S.P.” on title-page and lower wrappers) of one of Camus’ most notable works. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “A Yvon Belaval en souvenir des Portiques d’Alger, amicalement Albert Camus.” The recipient, French philosopher and literary scholar Yvon Belaval, was a specialist in 18th century French philosopher Denis Diderot and edited an important edition of Diderot’s works with fellow philosopher Jean Grenier, one of Camus’ most influential mentors to whom he dedicated the present volume. Camus became a student of Grenier’s in Algiers and was strongly influenced by his work Les Îles, published in 1933. He dedicated his first book to Grenier: L’envers et l’endroit, published in Algeria by Edmond Charlot. L’homme révolté was also dedicated to Grenier, and Camus provided the preface to the second edition of Les Îles in 1959. In near fine condition. A unique association copy.

One of Camus' most important philosophical texts, The Rebel examines both the metaphysical and historical development of rebellion and revolution in societies, particularly in Western Europe. Examining both rebellion and revolt, which may be seen as the same phenomenon in personal and social frames, Camus examines several' countercultural' figures and movements from the history of Western thought and art, noting the importance of each in the overall development of revolutionary thought and philosophy.