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'This is the first and best intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (19571972) 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 continual attempts to incorporate Debord's theoretical work into "French theory". Jappe's focus, on 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.'

Anshelm Jappe. PM Press, 2018.

Product Code: 9781629634494