Main entry:

Hussey, Andrew.

Title & Author:

The game of war : the life and death of Guy Debord / Andrew Hussey.

Publication:

London : J. Cape, 2001.

Description:

x, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-405) and index.
Part One: Dark Passage, 1931-57 -- 1 The Lost Domain -- 2 'Umor' and the Suicide Solution -- 3 The Demolition Expert -- 4 Like a Pack of Bastard Dogs -- 5 Howling in Favour of Sade -- 6 Playtime -- 7 Who is 'Potlatch'? -- 8 Paris without Spectacle -- Part Two: The Modem Art of Revolution 1957-61 -- 9 The Wreckers of Civilisation -- 10 The Art of the Future -- 11 A Civil War in France -- 12 Scandals and Supreme Tricks -- 13 Psychogeographers at Work -- 14 Socialism and Barbarism -- Part Three: Attack by Fire! 1962-72 -- 15 No Dialogue with Cunts -- 16 Gangland and Philosophy -- 17 The Situationist International Anti-Public Relations Service -- 18 Exit, Far Left, the Mysterious Mr K -- 19 Heatwave -- 20 Days of Rage -- 21 Paris Awakes! -- 22 In Time of War -- 23 Is the Reichstag Burning? -- 24 Without Dead Time -- 25 Fall-Out -- Part Four: Silence, Exile, 1972-84 -- 26 Prince and Bandit -- 27 The Courtier -- 28 The Last Chance to Save Capitalism -- 29 Fortresses, Firebombs and Films -- 30 Terrorism and the State -- 31 The World is Illusion -- Part Five: Death of a Prince, 1984-94 -- 32 Death Instinct -- 33 Reflections on Violence -- 34 Bitter Victory -- 35 This Bad Reputation -- 36 The Prince of Division -- Afterword: Spectators of Suicide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

"Since his death in 1994 (when he put a bullet through his heart in his lonely farmhouse) Guy Debord has been hailed as one of the key thinkers of the age. In Britain and the United States, his theories on the 'spectacle' of modern life were simultaneously hailed as deadly truths by underground subversives and accorded the highest academic prestige. In the same way, the Situationist International (SI), a volatile group of artists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals which Debord led through the 1950s and 1960s, is considered to be the most important art movement since Dada and the Surrealists." "This biography is an appraisal of a lone and defiant figure whose story both follows and, at one historic moment in 1968, appears to lead the drift of art and politics in post-war Paris. 'It could almost be believed that I was the only person to have loved Paris, ' Debord said. Then, almost with a shrug, 'But no one has twice raised Paris to revolt.'"--Jacket.

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ISBN:

022404348X
9780224043489

Subject:

Debord, Guy, 1931-1994.
Debord, Guy 1931-1994
Debord, Guy.
Radicals France Biography.
Radicaux (Politique) France Biographies.
Radicals
Sozialphilosophie
Radicalisme.
Oorlogen.
France

Form/genre:

Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220386
Call No.: HN49.R33 H8 2001
Status: Available