{"product_id":"guy-debord-9781629634494","title":"Guy Debord","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Society of the Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e, 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’s focus, to the contrary, is 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 supplies a superb gloss that has never been rivaled despite the great flood of writing on the Situationists in recent decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, Debord is placed squarely in context among the Letterist and Situationist anti-artists who, in the aftermath of World War II, sought to criticize and transcend the legacy of Dada and Surrealism. Jappe’s book offers a lively account of the Situationists’ theory and practice as this “last avant-garde” made its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary theory and action. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuy Debord\u003c\/em\u003e has been translated into many languages. This PM Press reprint edition benefits from a new author’s preface and a bibliographical update.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anselm Jappe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286834557179,"sku":"9781629634494","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781629634494.jpg?v=1772485559","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/guy-debord-9781629634494","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}