Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:31:05 -0700 From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net> Subject: AUT: Fw: New Debord Translation ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb-AT-slip.net> To: "Bureau of Public Secrets" <knabb-AT-slip.net> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 6:53 PM Subject: New Debord Translation > Ken Knabb's new translation of Chapter 4 of Guy Debord's THE SOCIETY OF THE > SPECTACLE is online at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/SI/debord/4.htm > > Debord's book -- easily the most important radical book of the 20th > century -- has been translated into over a dozen languages. There have been > five or six different versions in English alone. This new translation of > Chapter 4 incorporates the best renderings from those previous versions, but > it is clearer and more accurate than any of them. > > Chapter 4 is not only the most important chapter of the book, it is also the > easiest to understand because it deals primarily with concrete historical > events, revealing the practical implications of ideas that are expressed > more abstractly in the other chapters. > > The topics dealt with include Hegel, Marx, Bakunin, Lenin, Lukács, > anarchism, utopian socialism, reformism, fascism, Bolshevism, Stalinism, > Trotskyism, the Russian revolution, the Spanish revolution, Third World > movements, workers councils, revolutionary organization, and the nature of > the new revolt that Debord saw coming -- the revolt that burst into full > view in 1968, less than a year after the original publication of the book. > > > * * * > > The Bureau of Public Secrets website features numerous texts by and about > Guy Debord and other members of the Situationist International, the > notorious avant-garde group that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in > France. > > > BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS > PO Box 1044, Berkeley CA 94701, USA > http://www.slip.net/~knabb > knabb-AT-slip.net > > --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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