Originally published in France as Conférences et discours, 1936-1958 by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2017

Indigenous culture: the New Mediterranean culture (1937) -- Defense of intelligence (1945) -- Informal talk by Monsieur Albert Camus [to the Romanians] (1945) -- The crisis of man (1946) -- Are we pessimists? (1946) -- [The individual and freedom] Interventions at the Civilization Round Table (1946) -- [Knowledge is universal] Message read out by Jean Amrouche at the Maison de la Chimie (1946) -- The unbeliever and Christians Lecture at the Latour-Maubourg Monastery (1946) -- "Spain? I don't think I can speak about it any more..." (1946-1947) -- I reply... (1948) -- Witness for freedom (1948) -- Time of the murderers (1949) -- The Europe of loyalty (1951) -- [Spain and War] Lecture at the Casal de Catalunya (1951) -- Albert Camus talks about the general election in Britain (1951) -- Appeal for those under sentence of death (1952) -- Spain and culture (1952) -- Bread and freedom (1953) -- [The Berlin events and us] Lecture at the Mutualité (1953) -- The future of European civilization (1955) -- On the future of tragedy (1955) -- Spain and Don Quixotism (1955) -- Homage to an exiled journalist (1955) -- For Dostoyevsky (1955) -- Appeal for a civilian truce in Algeria (1956) - Poznań (1956) -- The option of freedom Tribute to Salvador de Madariaga (1956) -- Message to young French supporters of Hungary (1956) -- Kádár has had his day of fear (1957) -- A message to Hungarian writers in exile (1957) -- Nobel Prize acceptance speech [Stockholm] (1957) -- [The artist and his age] Lecture at Uppsala University (1957) -- What I owe to Spain (1958) -- My debt to Algeria: Lecture at the Algerian Club (1958)

"The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring lectures and speeches, newly translated by Quintin Hoare, in what is the first English language publication of this collection. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1938-1958 brings together, for the first time, thirty-four public statements from across Camus's career that reveal his radical commitment to justice around the world and his role as a public intellectual. From his 1946 lecture at Columbia University about humanity's moral decline, his 1951 BBC broadcast commenting on Britain's general election, and his strident appeal during the Algerian conflict for a civilian truce between Algeria and France, to his speeches on Dostoevsky and Don Quixote, this crucial new collection reflects the scope of Camus's political and cultural influence"--