Problematic rebel : Melville, Dostoievsky, Kafka, Camus
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TextChicago The University of Chicago Press 3d impression, 1973Edition: rev. ed. c1970Description: xvi, 523p.; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-226-26395-9
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1st ed pub. in 1963 by Random House under the title Problematic rebel: an image of modern man.
Jung is cited three times in the index.
1 Between Prometheus and Job. 2 Herman Melville. 3 Fyodor Dostoievsky. 4 Franz Kafka. 5 Albert Camus. 6 A depth-image of modern man
'...The theme is the revolt of man against an existence emptied of meaning, the existence after the so-called 'death of God.' This emptying of meaning is not to be overcome through the illusionary program of a free "creation of values," as we know it in Nietzsche and Sartre. One must withstand this meaninglessness, must suffer it to the end, must do battle with it undauntedly, until out of the contradiction experienced in conflict and suffering, meaning shines forth anew. That Maurice Friedman assigns these figures to two basic types, "Rebel" and "Exile," and brings them into relationship with Prometheus and Job, makes his book of still greater value." --Martin Buber
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