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A review by danamiranda
Ni víctimas ni verdugos by Albert Camus
2.0
I enjoyed Camus’ treatment of History as an absolute end and his call towards sociability, ‘…that words are more powerful than munitions’ (55). On the other hand, I find his prescription towards international democracy troubling.
"We are being torn apart by a logic of History which we have elaborated in every detail—a net which threatens to strangle us. It is not emotion which can cut through the web of a logic which has gone to irrational lengths, but only reason which can meet logic on its own ground…. But the problem is not how to carry men away; it is essential, on the contrary, that they not be carried away but rather that they be made to understand clearly what they are doing" (52).
"We are being torn apart by a logic of History which we have elaborated in every detail—a net which threatens to strangle us. It is not emotion which can cut through the web of a logic which has gone to irrational lengths, but only reason which can meet logic on its own ground…. But the problem is not how to carry men away; it is essential, on the contrary, that they not be carried away but rather that they be made to understand clearly what they are doing" (52).