Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord – Softcover

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Format: Trade Paperback Author: Guy Debord Item Weight: 8 Oz Number of Pages: 160 Pages Publisher: Bureau of Public Secrets Genre: Art, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Science, Psychology ISBN: 9780939682065 Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Criticism & Theory, History & Theory, Political, Social Psychology Original Language: French Publication Year: 2014 Language: English Book Title: Society of the Spectacle

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Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord – Softcover. Literary Nonfiction. Critical Theory. Translated from the French and annotated by Ken Knabb. Literary Nonfiction. Politics. Critical Theory. Art. Translated from the French and annotated by Ken Knabb. Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the founder and most influential member of the Situationist International, the notorious avant- garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France. THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE, originally published in Paris in 1967, has been translated into more than twenty other languages and is arguably the most important radical book of the twentieth century. This is the first edition in any language to include extensive annotations, clarifying the historical allusions and revealing the sources of Debord's "détournements."