Guy Debord
ISBN-13: 9781629634494
Author(s): Anselm Jappe
Subjects: BGL, DNBL
Publisher: Pm Press
Publisher Imprint: Pm Press
Publication Date: 19-04-2018
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£20.99
About the book
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.