Time for Outrage! by Stéphane Hessel (Book Analysis) E-Book

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Time for Outrage! by Stéphane Hessel, a short essay which calls for the citizens of the world to rise up against injustice and discrimination. In the essay, Hessel identifies the reasons for outrage in the modern world and makes the case for nonviolent revolution. Time for Outrage! was originally published in France in 2010, just before Christmas, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon. It has been translated into a dozen different languages, and made headlines in Germany even before the official translation was published. The incredible success of the essay was partly thanks to its author, Stéphane Hessel, a former resistance fighter with an illustrious career. He was born in Germany in 1917 and was made a French citizen in 1937, after which he became a resistance fighter during the Second World War. He survived a German concentration camp and went on to become a diplomat. He died in 2013 at the age of 95.  

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Stéphane Hessel

French writer and diplomat

Born in Berlin in 1917.Died in Paris in 2013.Notable works:Danse avec le siècle (“Dance With the Century", 1997), autobiographyTime for Outrage! (2011), essayEngagez-vous! (“Get Involved!”, 2011), interview

Stéphane Hessel was a French writer, diplomat and political activist born in Berlin in 1917. He moved to France in 1925 and became a French citizen in 1937. In 1941, he joined Charles de Gaulle’s (1890-1970) Free French Forces, but he was denounced and arrested by the Gestapo on 10 July 1944, after returning to organise Resistance communication networks in France. However, he managed to escape from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

In 1946, he became a diplomat. His first post in the United Nations gave him the chance to be a part of the commission tasked with editing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Throughout his career, he fought against injustice, denouncing the violence of the Israeli government, the treatment of undocumented immigrants and the more unpleasant sides of modern society.

He died in Paris in 2013.

Time for Outrage!

Resistance against the injustices and unlawfulness of society

Genre: political essayReference edition: Hessel, S. (2011) Time for Outrage!. Trans. Searls, D. London: Quartet Books.1st edition: 2011 (first French edition appeared in 2010)Themes: resistance, inequality, committment, nonviolence

Time for Outrage! is an essay published in 2010. In it, the author defends the idea that outrage is the catalyst of resistance and urges the world to begin a peaceful revolution. He targets a range of serious issues, including the growing inequality between the rich and the poor, the state of the planet, overconsumption and the dictatorship of the financial markets.

The essay quickly became a publishing phenomenon. Its success is linked to the personality and charisma of its author, its small size and its low price. Sociologist Edgar Morin described readers’ enthusiasm for the book as the sign of the “public awakening of a people who were, up until now, very passive”1.

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Summary

A statement of fact by way of introduction

The years of resistance and the programme drawn up by the National Council of the Resistance in 1944 served as the basis for Hessel’s political engagement. The Council proposed a list of principles and values which should be the foundation of modern democracy in a liberated France. The diplomat made the valid point that the true heirs of the National Council of the Resistance would not tolerate certain changes in modern society.