[...] this new translation - which both strives for greater literalness and provides more references to Camus's poorly cited sources than the existing McBride translation - fills a pressing need for a critical edition of a work that holds a key to understanding Camus's later writings. [...] Neoplatonism absorbs spirituality into Reason by identifying "the destiny of the soul and the rational knowledge of things," while Christianity is determined "to soften progressively Greek reason and to incorporate it into its own edifice, but in a sphere in which it is inoffensive."
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