The Crisis of Man (original title in French: “La Crise de l’homme”) was a lecture delivered by
Nobel Prize
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–winning author
Albert Camus
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at Columbia University on March 28, 1946. The lecture was focused on the moral decline of humanity and on how to promote peace.
The lecture was re-delivered 70 years later, at the same amphitheater, narrated by actor
Viggo Mortensen
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.
References
External links
Albert Camus's “The Human Crisis” read by Viggo Mortensen, 70 years later
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Albert Camus
Columbia University
Lectures
1946 in New York City