The Revolution of Everyday Life [Paperback]

Raoul Vaneigem (Author), Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0946061017 | ISBN-13: 978-0946061013 | Publication Date: April 20, 2001

Finally, back in print again, the essential handbook for all of us still alienated by modern capitalism. Together with Debord, Vaneigem was the main theorist of Situationist ideas. He has the added benefit of being eminently more readable! An incredible work, more potent now than ever. "We have a world of pleasures to win, and nothing to lose but boredom.......You want to fuck around with us? Not for long."

Product Details

• Paperback: 279 pages
• Publisher: Rebel Press (April 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0946061017
• ISBN-13: 978-0946061013
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #492,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From a philosophy student, possibly the best book ever., July 25, 1999

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Building on the genius of Marx, Nietzsche and others, Vaneigem takes apart the complex spectacle of consumer society with the goal in mind of nothing short of every human being's self-realization. He's far more realistic than other thinkers, and has a firm grasp on how our everyday lives reflect and affect our social surroundings. His writing style is poetic and elegant, dense but never technical and dry. Roughly speaking, his hope lies in the subjectivity and uniqueness of every individual, living everyday life spontaneously and artistically, with the end in mind that we can all eventually liberate our individual selves and each other from social constraints and social objectification/commoditization. It's a revolution of love, not of violence -- of protest for the innocence and beauty of the human spirit. Although written in the late 1960's, his description only seems more accurate today, when the nihilism of money and consumer society are worse than ever. A must-read for any student of personal, emotional REAL LIFE ITSELF, this book has deeply strengthened my faith in philosophy and in the possibility for making society work in a healthier, saner and happier way.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oddly, more relevant now than 30 years ago., March 18, 1999

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My personal copy of this book is dog-eared, underlined, highlighted and, by now, largely taped together. It captures the spirit of the global counter culture movement of the late 60's but is oddly, more relevant now than 30 years ago. The poststructuralists tell us that criticism is impossible, subversion futile, and revolution a childish and reactionary dream. But these are the defeatest rationalizations of yuppie academics with middle class asperations of a slow comfortable death. If they had the nerve to write graffiti it would read 'If you can't beat them join them'. My favorite quote from the book: 'Some of us have fallen in love with the pleasure of loving without reserve - passionately enough to offer our love the magnificent bed of a revolution.' This book should be read in tandem with Guy Debord's 'Society of the Spectacle', published the same year. It will help clarify many of Debord's theses as well as provide an overview of Situationist thought.