Guy Debord ; - Softcover

Jappe, Anselm; Nicholson-Smith, Donald; Clark, T.J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629634492 ISBN 13: 9781629634494

Publisher: Pm Press, 2018

Synopsis

This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, perhaps the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord's theoretical work into French theory. Jappe focuses, to the contrary, on Debord's debt to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition, to Karl Korsch and Georg Lukacs, and more generally to left-Marxist currents of council communism.

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Review:

"A clear-headed account . . . far and away the best we have so far." --Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Anselm Jappe currently teaches art history and political and economic theory at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari in Sardinia. His essays have been published in the collection The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics. T.J. Clark is a British art historian and writer, who has taught in universities such as Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. Donald Nicholson-Smith's translations include works by Jean Piaget, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Guy Debord, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, and Raoul Vaneigem. As a young man he was a member of the Situationist International in Paris and a comrade-in-arms of Guy Debord's.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pm Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1629634492
• ISBN 13: 9781629634494
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224