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The Rebel
L'Homme révolté (The Rebel) is Camus's most ambitious philosophical work and the book that ended his friendship with Sartre. Published in 1951, it traces the history of rebellion in European thought from the Greeks through the French and Russian Revolutions into twentieth-century totalitarianism, and argues that rebellion, once it accepts that the end justifies the means, slides into a logic that requires murder. The alternative Camus proposes is a rebellion that carries its limits within itself — the recognition that human dignity is the boundary no ideology is entitled to cross. The book remains the most sustained philosophical treatment of the ethics of systemic change, and its framework applies with uncomfortable precision to the ethics of AI deployment.
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The book was written in the aftermath of World War II and the revelation of the Nazi and Stalinist camps. Camus's question was structural: why did the great revolutionary movements of the twentieth century — movements that began with the liberation