A brief and elegiac memoir of a life lived in its shadows and cracks.

Artforum

As cryptic and self-effacing a self-portrait as can be found anywhere ... <i>Panegyric</i> is almost purely literary, in the sense that one need know or care nothing of the author to be captured by it: Debord is seeking to hijack his era into timelessness.

London Review of Books

These concise but extremely rich and provocative memoirs are the product of ... a philosopher whose scathing pen has never been so sharp.

San Francisco Chronicle

Guy Debord's silver-tongue-in-cheek autobiography mixes precision and pastiche in a whirlwind account of philosophy, exploit, and inebriation. From the stark professions of Volume I to the illustrated sequences of Volume 2, Panegyric confronts us with a figure who strategically, demonically tried to wrest life from the disabling modern 'spectacle.'
Les mer
Part of "Radical Thinkers" series, this work presents key texts by philosophers and thinkers. It features an autobiography by the founding figure of the Situationist International.
An audacious autobiography by the founding figure of the Situationist International

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781844673537
Publisert
2009-06-09
Utgiver
Verso Books; Verso Books
Vekt
210 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
G, UU, UP, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931 and committed suicide in 1994. A Marxist theorist, French writer, poet, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Letterist International and Situationist International, Debord is best known as the leading theoretician of the situationist movement. His works translated into English include The Society of the Spectacle, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, and Panegyric.