Regis Debray: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers) |  | Author: Keith Reader
Publisher: Pluto Pr
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
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Pages: 104
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 074530821X
EAN: 9780745308210
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Regis Debray's involvement with the liberation struggles in Latin America in the 1960s, as a supporter of the Cuban Revolution and a close comrade of Castro and Che Guevara, catapulted him to world-wide prominence in 1967 when he was arrested and sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment in Bolivia. For many on the left in Europe, Debray - historian and activist - is forever associated with the heady premise and subsequent disillusionment of Castro's Cuba and the romance of revolutionary possibilities in the events of May '68 when change, to some, seemed possible. This book offers a study of a man who exemplifies the critical contradictions of French intellectual life in the late 20th century. It provides a close analysis of Debray's political and cultural writings over the last 30 years and places them in their intellectual and historical context. Keith Reader draws out the underlying coherence of ideology and theme exemplified by Debray's consistent and continuing stress on the importance of geography, the centrality/inevitability of the nation-state and the promotion of a culture of the word over one of the image - a continuing concern of Debray's and one to which he has devoted most of his attention in recent years. This introduction to Debray's work illuminates the intellectual and cultural milieu of the left in a key European context it also examines the problematic position of European Marxists in the so-called "new world order".
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