The Revolution of Everyday Life
by Raoul Vaneigem
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Politics. Nonfiction. 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 show more Occupy Movement. Naming and defining the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society—survival rather than living in full, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and the replacement of God by the economy—the book argues that the countervailing impulses that exist deep within this alienation, such as creativity, spontaneity, and poetry, present an authentic alternative to nihilistic consumerism. This carefully edited new translation marks the first North American publication of this important work and includes a new preface by the author and a translator’s note. show lessTags
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This book floored me when I first discovered it in City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in 1988. Written in Paris cafes in the revolutionary fervor of the late '60s, the breathless rhetoric may sound dated today but I wish I had been a part of that era.
my bible back then in the seventies
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Vaneigem-Traite-de-savoir-vivre-a-lusage-des-jeun...
> Nuit blanche, (53), p. 34–41 : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/21503ac
> BAnQ (Bélair M., Le devoir, 1 déc. 1979) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2776464
> TRAITÉ DE SAVOIR-VIVRE À L'USAGE DES JEUNES GÉNÉRATIONS, de Raoul Vaneigem, Éd. Folio-Actuel 361 pages. — « Qu’est-ce que la poésie ? La poésie est l’organisation de la spontanéité créative, l’exploitation du qualificatif selon ses lois intrinsèques de cohérence. Ce que les Grecs nommaient POIEN, qui est le faire ici rendu à la pureté de son jaillissement originel et, pour tout dire, à la totalité.» Dans cet essai qui fit grand bruit lors de sa show more sortie, Raoul Vaneigem traite aussi bien de la poésie que du travail, du bonheur comme de l’apparence. Spécialiste en philologie romane, Vaneigem a participé aux travaux de l'Internationale Situationniste de 1961 à 1970. — S.T.
—Le devoir, 20 juin 1992, (p. 2) show less
> Nuit blanche, (53), p. 34–41 : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/21503ac
> BAnQ (Bélair M., Le devoir, 1 déc. 1979) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2776464
> TRAITÉ DE SAVOIR-VIVRE À L'USAGE DES JEUNES GÉNÉRATIONS, de Raoul Vaneigem, Éd. Folio-Actuel 361 pages. — « Qu’est-ce que la poésie ? La poésie est l’organisation de la spontanéité créative, l’exploitation du qualificatif selon ses lois intrinsèques de cohérence. Ce que les Grecs nommaient POIEN, qui est le faire ici rendu à la pureté de son jaillissement originel et, pour tout dire, à la totalité.» Dans cet essai qui fit grand bruit lors de sa show more sortie, Raoul Vaneigem traite aussi bien de la poésie que du travail, du bonheur comme de l’apparence. Spécialiste en philologie romane, Vaneigem a participé aux travaux de l'Internationale Situationniste de 1961 à 1970. — S.T.
—Le devoir, 20 juin 1992, (p. 2) show less
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Raoul Vaneigem was a member of the Situationsist International and is the author of many books, including The Revolution of Everyday Life and A Letter to My Children and the Children of the World to Come.
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Traité de savior-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations
- Original publication date
- 1967
- Original language
- French
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 320.534
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 320.534 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political ideologies Radicalism, collectivism, fascism Situationist
- LCC
- CB428 .V3613 — Auxiliary Sciences of History History of Civilization History of Civilization By period
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- Languages
- 9 — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 25
- ASINs
- 4
