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Description for Panegyric
Paperback. .
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.'
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.'
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
210g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844673537
SKU
V9781844673537
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Ref
99-1
About Guy Debord
Guy Debord was born in 1931 in Paris. From 1958 to 1969 he edited the journal Internationale situationniste and published The Society of the Spectacle in 1967. Among his other works are Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988, published in English by Verso in 1990). He committed suicide on 30 November 1994.
Reviews for Panegyric
A philosopher whose scathing pen has never been so sharp. San Francisco Chronicle