Albert Camus

The world is silent: live lucidly, in revolt.

Philosophy of the absurd1913 – 1960 FrancePhilosopher of the absurdWriter and essayistThinker of revoltCommitted journalist

Inspirations

Nietzsche obeying long in one direction, probity

Kierkegaard refuses his "leap" toward faith

Léon Chestovthe irrational turned into God, another leap

critic

DostoïevskiKirilov and Ivan Karamazov, revolt to the end

Les Grecsmeasure (Nemesis), the idea of a human nature

Jean Grenierhis teacher in Algiers, quoted in The Rebel

Heirs

Sartre the 1952 quarrel over The Rebel, then the break

how it is computed

Closest

Michel Foucault Philosopher and historian: knowledge and power produce each other, and every society has its regime of truth.

Francis Fukuyama Political scientist: liberal democracy may be the end point of the evolution of political ideas.

Jürgen Habermas A rule is just if everyone it affects could accept it in a free discussion.

John Rawls A society is just if its rules would be chosen by people who did not know what place they would hold in it.

Furthest

Léon Tolstoï At fifty he saw no meaning in anything; he found it again in the faith of simple people.

Martin Luther King Jr. Minister and leader of the civil rights movement: he defends nonviolent disobedience to unjust laws, openly and accepting the penalty.