Abstract
These epigraphs come from french resistance fighters during the Second World War. Although uttered sixty years apart, they express the essence of the rebellious spirit. Such a spirit collaborates with dialectical thought. Friedrich Nietzsche served as their foundational thinker who cleared the ground for them. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus built on his work to apply dialectics in their social thought, which like Nietzsche’s was rebellious. This chapter examines them.
Je me revolt donc nous sommes.
I rebel therefore we are.
Camus 1951:36
Créer c’est résister. Résister c’est créer.
To create is to resist. To resist is to create.
Hessel 2010:19
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© 2014 Geoffrey R. Skoll
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Skoll, G.R. (2014). Rebellion. In: Dialectics in Social Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137387066_7
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