Is still fashionable nowadays to to ask why Satre and Camus fought. [Spanish]

Authors

  • Rubén Darío Maldonado Universidad del Norte

Keywords:

History, terror, rebellion, disagreement,

Abstract

This is a reflection on the degradation of the human protest, with terrorism promoting it as a legitímate trategy to obtain “political results”. Such a reflection is done from the update of the conceptual and political referents that led Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus to hold a bitter controversy during the 50’s, when they discussed about History. This controversy put them in opposed theoretical positions about the idea of History, finally giving an end to their more than 10-year friendship. The depth of this discussion, the argumentative gathering they used and the passion with which it was carried out, constitute an invaluable framework to be re-examined, in the context of contemporary history, the understanding of the phenomenon of political action and the threat of terror for civilization.

Author Biography

  • Rubén Darío Maldonado, Universidad del Norte
    Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía

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