Product Description

An audacious autobiography by the founding and pivotal figure of the Situationist International.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #430478 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
"A philosopher whose scathing pen has never been so sharp." San Francisco Chronicle"

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Customer Reviews

Fascinating glimpse into the psyche of Debord
If you are looking for a hard and fast chronology of the life and times of the leader of the situationists, then look elsewhere.

Touted as a "auto-biography" this short volume (79 pages) in fact contains little or no detail about the activities of the Letterists or Situationists, only mentioning these movements in passing.

Instead "Panegyric" finds Debord musing languidly in poetic prose on the subject of "what I have loved", "in this light" he states "everything else will become self-evident". Employing much use of quotations from his literary heroes such as Clausewitz, Villion, De Quincey and Saint-Simon, Debord "derives" through fragmentary chapters covering his love of alcohol, Paris, women, abhorrence of work, admiration for the historical strategies of war and men of battle, evoking neither "blame nor criticism".

A volume that tells us only as much as Debord wanted us to know, but that is much more than any of the other voluminous "unofficial" biographies of this complex and fascinating man.