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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 \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 \u003cp\u003eGuy Debord has been translated into many languages. 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