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    Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
    Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
    Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
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    Albert Camus and the Human Crisis

    By Robert E. Meagher

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    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.

    Camus’s voice speaks like few others to the heart of an affliction that infects our country and our world, a world divided against itself. His generation called him “the conscience of Europe.” That same voice speaks to us and our world today with a moral integrity and eloquence so sorely lacking in the public arena.

    Few authors, sixty years after their deaths, have more avid readers, across more continents, than Albert Camus. Camus has never been a trend, a fad, or just a good read. He was always and still is a companion, a guide, a challenge, and a light in darkened times. This keenly insightful story of an intellectual is an ideal volume for those readers who are first discovering Camus, as well as a penetrating exploration of the author for all those who imagine they have already plumbed Camus’ depths—a supremely timely book on an author whose time has come once again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Books
    Release dateNov 2, 2021
    ISBN9781643138220
    Albert Camus and the Human Crisis
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    Robert E. Meagher

    Robert Emmet Meagher is Emeritus Professor of Humanities, Hampshire College, Amherst. His publishing career includes many books, translations, and original plays, most recently Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War and War and Moral Injury. For many years he has served in a range of veteran-focused programs aimed at understanding and healing soldiers with moral injury. He lives in East Hartland, Connecticut.

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