The revolution of everyday life / Raoul Vaneigem ; a new traslation by Donald Nichols-Smith with preface by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaneigem, Raoul, 1934-

Contributor:

Nichols-Smith, Donald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Civilization, Modern.

Youth--Conduct of life.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st PM Press ed.

Other Title:

Traite de savoir-vivre a l'usage des jeunes geenerations

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the most important exponents of Situationist ideas, this treatise presents an impassioned critique of modern capitalism and serves as a cornerstone of modern radical thought. Originally published in early 1968, the book both kindled and colored the May 1968 upheavals in France that captured the attention of the world. In the political climate of today, Raoul Vaneigem's important work of radical anticapitalist thought has struck a new chord with the worldwide Occupy Movement. Naming and defining the alienating features of everyday life in

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Acknowledgements; Author's Preface to the Present Edition; The Revolution of Everyday Life; Introduction; PART ONE Power's Perspective; I The Insignificant Signified; The Impossibility of Participation: Power as Sum of Constraints; II Humiliation; III Isolation; IV Suffering; V The Decline of Work; VI Decompression and the Third Force; The Impossibility of Communication: Power as Universal Mediation; VII The Age of Happiness; VIII Exchange and Gift; IX Technology and Its Mediated Use; X The Reign of Quantity

XI Mediated Abstraction and Abstracted MediationThe Impossibility of Fulfilment: Power as Sum of Seductions; XII Sacrifice; XIII Separation; XIV The Organization of Appearances; XV Roles; XVI The Fascination of Time; Survival and Its Pseudo-Negation; XVII Survival Sickness; XVIII Unbuttressed Refusal; PART TWO Reversal of Perspective; XIX Reversal of Perspective; XX Creativity, Spontaneity and Poetry; XXI Masters Without Slaves; XXII The Space-Time of Lived Experience and the Rectification of the Past; XXIII The Unitary Triad: Fulfilment, Communication, Participation

XXIV The Interworld and the New InnocenceXXV You Won't Fuck with Us Much Longer!; postscript (1972) A Toast to Revolutionary Workers; Appendix 1 Author's Preface to the First French Mass-Market Edition (1992); Appendix 2 Concerning the Translation; Index

Notes:

Rev. translation of Traite de savoir-vivre a l'usage des jeunes geenerations.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-60486-784-1

OCLC:

815382715