{"product_id":"guy-debord-book-anselm-jappe-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 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'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. This PM Press reprint edition benefits from a new author's preface and a bibliographical update.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50236926853393,"sku":"GOR011795697","price":13.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51041265680657,"sku":"NIN9781629634494","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52109293781265,"sku":"GOR012855008","price":17.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1629634492.jpg?v=1750720839","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/guy-debord-book-anselm-jappe-9781629634494","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}