Guy Debord

Anselm Jappe

• 19 april 2018
• 9781629634494

Samenvatting:

This is the first intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957&;1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, 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 Lukács, and more generally to left-Marxist currents of council communism. His close reading of Debord&;s magnum opus is unique among the great flood of writing on the Situationists in recent decades. This PM reprint edition benefits from a new author&;s preface and a bibliographical update.