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The Revolution of Everyday Life Reprint Edition
Author(s): Raoul Vaneigem (Author)
- Publisher: PM Press
- Publication Date: 1 Dec. 2012
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 1604866780
- ISBN-13: 9781604866780
Book Description
Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s text offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the ‘society of spectacle’ from the point of view of individual experience. Vaneigem defines the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society and explores the countervailing impulses that persist within that alienation. The present English translation was first published by the Rebel Press in 1983. This new edition has been reviewed and corrected by the translator and contains a new preface by Raoul Vaneigem.
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About the Author
Born in 1934, Raoul Vaneigem is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International. His works include The Book of Pleasures, A Cavalier History of Surrealism, Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle, and the globally influential text The Revolution of Everyday Life Reprint Edition.
Born in Manchester, England, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. Among his many translations are Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life Reprint Edition (revised ed., PM Press, 2012), Vaneigem’s A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings (2nd ed., PM Press, 2019), Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone, 2012), and Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe (PM Press, 2018)
