postwar intellectual. He is remembered, with Sartre, as a leading
practitioner of the existential novel. Though he understood the nihilism
of many of his contemporaries, Camus also argued the necessity of
defending such values as truth, moderation, and justice. In his last
works he sketched the outlines of a liberal humanism that rejected the
dogmatic aspects of both Christianity and Marxism.
The Rebel, essay by French writer Albert Camus, originally published
in French as L’Homme révolté in 1951. The essay, a treatise against
political revolution, was disliked by both Marxists and existentialists
and provoked a critical response from French writer Jean-Paul Sartre
in the review Les Temps modernes (1952).