- Conduct of life, Modern Civilization, Revolutions, Youth
There is a grain of truth in the simplified notion that Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem represented two poles of the Situationist International: the 'objective' Debord versus the 'subjective' Vaneigem; Marxism versus anarchism; icy cerebrality versus sensualism.
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About the book
- Author
- Raoul Vaneigem, Raoul Vaneigem
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 279
- Publisher
- Rebel Press/Left Bank Books, The Anarchist Library, Left Bank Books and Rebel Press
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780946061013
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