{"product_id":"revolution-of-everyday-life-paperback","title":"Revolution of Everyday Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRaoul Vaneigem\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem's \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the \"society of the spectacle\" from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord's masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the time with theory, Vaneigem's book described their feelings of desperation directly, and armed them with \"formulations capable of firing point-blank on our enemies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I realise,\" writes Vaneigem in his introduction, \"that I have given subjective will an easy time in this book, but let no one reproach me for this without first considering the extent to which the objective conditions of the contemporary world advance the cause of subjectivity day after day.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVaneigem names and defines the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society: survival rather than life, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and above all the replacement of God by the Economy. And in the second part of his book, \"Reversal of Perspective,\" he explores the countervailing impulses that, in true dialectical fashion, persist within the deepest alienation: creativity, spontaneity, poetry, and the path from isolation to communication and participation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor \"To desire a different life is already that life in the making.\" And \"fulfillment is expressed in the singular but conjugated in the plural.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe present English translation was first published by Rebel Press of London in 1983. This new edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Everyday Life\u003c\/em\u003e has been reviewed and corrected by the translator and contains a new preface addressed to English-language readers by Raoul Vaneigem. The book is the first of several translations of works by Raoul Vaneigem that PM Press plans to publish in uniform volumes. Vaneigem's classic work is to be followed by \u003cem\u003eThe Knight, the Lady, the Devil, and Death\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) and \u003cem\u003eThe Inhumanity of Religion\u003c\/em\u003e (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaoul Vaneigem\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and a former member of the Situationist International and is a key theorist in the worldwide Occupy movement. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Pleasures, A Cavalier History of Surrealism, Contributions to the Revolutionary Struggle, A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings, The Movement of the Free Spirit, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Totality for Kids\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is a former member of the Situationist International and a translator of the works of Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Thierry Jonquet, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 5.9 x 8.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51980540150061,"sku":"9781604866780","price":22.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/dHNlV0pYdzNVaEQ1MTdKdmxzNkpJdz09.webp?v=1775886605","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/revolution-of-everyday-life-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}