Situationist International - A Critical Handbook

List of contents

Introduction: The Situationist International in Critical Perspective - Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias

PART I: KEY CONTEXTS

1. Debord's Reading of Marx, Lukács and Wittfogel: A Look at the Archives - Anselm Jappe

2. The Unsurpassable: Dada, Surrealism and the Situationist International - Krzysztof Fijalkowski

3. Lettrism - Fabrice Flahutez

4. The Situationists, Hegel and Hegelian Marxism in France - Tom Bunyard

5. The Situationist International and the Rediscovery of the Revolutionary Workers' Movement - Anthony Hayes

6. The Shadow Cast by the Situationist International on May '68 - Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot

7. The Situationists' Anti-colonialism: An Internationalist Perspective - Sophie Dolto and Nedjib Sidi Moussa

8. Gender and Sexuality in the Situationist International - Ruth Baumeister

9. Revolutionary Romanticism in the Twentieth Century: Surrealists and Situationists - Michael Löwy

PART II: KEY CONCEPTS

10. The Spectacle - Alastair Hemmens and Gabriel Zacarias

11. The Constructed Situation - Gabriel Zacarias

12. Unitary Urbanism: Three Psychogeographic Imaginaries - Craig Buckley

13. The Abolition of Alienated Labour - Alastair Hemmens

14. Détournement in Language and the Visual Arts - Gabriel Zacarias

15. The Situationists' Revolution of Everyday Life - Michael E. Gardiner

16. Radical Subjectivity: Considered in its Psychological, Economic, Political, Sexual and, Notably, Philosophical Aspects - Alastair Hemmens

17. The 'Realisation of Philosophy' - Tom Bunyard

18. Recuperation - Patrick Marcolini

19. Internationalism - Bertrand Cochard

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the author

Alastair Hemmens is Lecturer in French at Cardiff University School of Modern Languages.
Gabriel Zacarias is Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Campinas, Brazil.

Product details

• Authors: Alastair Zacarias Hemmens
• Assisted by: Alastair Hemmens (Editor), Hemmens Alastair (Editor), Gabriel Zacarias (Editor)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2020
• EAN: 9780745338897
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3889-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Dada, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Theory of art, Avant-garde, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Surrealism, Political science & theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Revolutionary groups & movements, Political science and theory, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Revolutionary groups and movements, For higher / tertiary / university education