Introduction: an 'untimely' political thought for serious times - The twentieth-century politics of contempt - 'Undisguised influences' - Tragic beginnings mystic 'communion' with nature - An artist's point of view - Rethinking participation beyond political 'romanticism' - A stranger to the world of ressentiment - Commencement of freedom - Sisyphus or happiness in Hell - Nothing is possible, everything is permitted - The absurd and power - Combat with nihilism - Between Sade and the Dandy - Conclusion.
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960, Political and social views
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960, Criticism and interpretation