- Title
- Rebellion and revolution
- Creator
- Tabensky, Pedro
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/305721
- Identifier
- vital:58606
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2019.1574085"
- Description
- In this piece I will focus on what I think is a central aspect of Albert Camus’s thinking, embodied in the distinction he makes in The Rebel between rebel and revolutionary. His is a philosophy of rebellion and he thinks that revolutions are a distorted expression of our need to rebel against that which we cannot accept. His views should serve as a counterpoint to those who think that an all-or-nothing approach to social change is desirable (those who, for instance, are too quick to justify murderous campaigns allegedly aimed at justice). And the issue here is not that embodied crudely in the reactionary (or conservative)/radical dichotomy. Rather, it is a defence of the need to rebel within limits, not so much to preserve the old against the threat of the new but, instead, to preserve basic human decency from the dark side of outrage, without dismissing what is crucial about outrage and emancipatory struggles.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (14 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Angelaki, Tabensky, P., 2019. Rebellion and revolution. Angelaki, 24(2), pp.116-129, Angelaki volume 24 number 2 p. 116 2019 1469-2899
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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- Rights
- Open Access
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