Anselm Jappe: 2 books
by Anselm Jappe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This is the first intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957–1972) and author of The Society of the Spectacle, the seminal book of the May 1968 uprising in France. Anselm Jappe offers a powerful corrective to the continual attempts to incorporate Debord's...
The Writing on the Wall
On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such...