Panegyric
Guy Debord author James Brook translator John McHale translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:9th Jun '09
£14.99
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An audacious autobiography by the founding figure of the Situationist International
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.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.'
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 ... Panegyric 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 *
ISBN: 9781844673537
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 15mm
Weight: 210g
192 pages