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050			_aB2430.C354 _b.M42 2021
100			_aMeagher, Robert Emmet
245		0	_aAlbert Camus and the Human Crisis _b / _cRobert Emmet Meagher
260			_aNew York : _bPegasus Books, _c2021
300			_axi, 234 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_aThe human crisis -- Mortality -- Happiness -- The zero point -- Prison -- Toothing-stones -- Plague -- Rats -- Revolution -- Revolution -- Rebellion -- Limits -- Hell -- Judgment -- Friendship -- Conclusion. "A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship. As France--and all of the world--was emerging from the depths of World War II, Camus summed up what he saw as 'the human crisis'. 'We gasp for air among people who believe they are absolutely right, whether it be in their machines or their ideas. And for all who cannot live without dialogue and the friendship of other human beings, this silence is the end of the world.' In the years after he wrote these words, until his death fourteen years later, Camus labored to address this crisis, arguing for dialogue, understanding, clarity, and truth. When he sailed to New York, in March 1946--for his first and only visit to the United States--he found an ebullient nation celebrating victory. Camus warned against the common postwar complacency that took false comfort in the fact that Hitler was dead and the Third Reich had fallen. Yes, the serpentine beast was dead, but "we know perfectly well," he argued, "that the venom is not gone, that each of us carries it in our own hearts." All around him in the postwar world, Camus saw disheartening evidence of a global community revealing a heightened indifference to a number of societal ills. It is the same indifference to human suffering that we see all around, and within ourselves, today."
650			_aCamus, Albert, 1913-1960.Human beings.Philosophical anthropology.
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