Guy Debord

The first serious 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 May 1968 in France.

Anselm Jappe is an independent scholar who was born in Bonn in 1962 and now lives in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to theoretical journals in Europe, notably to Krisis in Germany, and is at work on a study of the fetishism of commodities. T. J. Clark's latest book is Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (1999). Donald Nicholson-Smith has previously translated Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life.

Foreword

vii

T. J. Clark

Translator's Acknowledgments

xi

Abbreviations

xiii

A Note on Quotation from English Translations

xvii

Part 1: The Concept of the Spectacle

Must We Burn Debord?

1

(4)

The Spectacle---Highest Stage of Abstraction

5

(14)

Debord and Lukacs

19

(12)

History and Community as the Essence of Man

31

(14)

Part 2: The Practice of Theory

The Letterist International

45

(18)

The Situationists and Art

63

(9)

The Critique of Everyday Life

72

(9)

The Situationists and the Sixties

81

(18)

May 1968 and After

99

(6)

The Debord Myth

105

(12)

The Spectacle Twenty Years On

117

(8)

Part 3: Theory Past and Present

The Situationist Critique in Historical Context

125

(10)

The Aporias of the Subject and the Prospects for Action

135

(13)

Two Sources and Two Aspects of Debord's Theory

148

(13)

Afterword to the English-Language Edition

161

(8)

Bibliography 1: Works of Guy Debord

169

(6)

Bibliography 2: Selected Works on Debord and the Situationists

175

(6)

Index

181

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