Guy Debord

Anselm Jappe; T. J. Clark (Foreword by); Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)

This is 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 rejects recent attempts to set Debord up as a "postmodern" icon, arguing that...