Régis Debray
Jules Régis Debray (1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic.
Contents
Works
(in French unless noted otherwise)
Monographs
- Revolution in the Revolution: Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America, trans. Bobbye Ortiz, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967, 211 pp; new ed., trans. Gregory Elliott and Bobbye Ortiz, London: Verso, 2017, 128 pp. [1] (English)
- Le pouvoir intellectuel en France, Ramsay, 1979; Paris: Gallimard, 1989. Commentary.
- Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France, London: New Left Books, 1981. Review, Review. (English)
- Le scribe, Genèse du politique, Grasset, 1980.
- Critique de la raison politique ou l’inconscient religieux, Gallimard, 1981; 1987.
- Critique of Political Reason, Verso, 2014, 384 pp. [2] (English)
- Cours de médiologie générale, bibliothèque des idées, Paris: Gallimard, 1991.
- Vie et mort de l'image: une histoire du regard en Occident, Paris: Gallimard, 1992. Review.
- Vida e morte da imagem: uma história do olhar no ocidente, trans. Guilherme Teixeira, Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 1994, 376 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Vida y muerte de la imagen: historia de la mirada en occidente, trans. Ramón Hervás, Barcelona/Buenos Aires/México: Paidós, 1994, 318 pp. (Spanish)
- Jenseits der Bilder. Eine Geschichte der Bildbetrachtung im Abendland, trans. Anne Hélène Hoog, Erich Thaler and Thomas Weber, Rodenbach: Avinus, 1999; 2nd ed., 2007, 368 pp; 3th ed., 2013, 368 pp.[3] (German)
- L’État séducteur, les révolutions médiologiques du pouvoir, Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
- El Estado seductor: las revoluciones mediologicas del poder, trans. Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 1995. (Spanish)
- L’œil naïf, Paris: Seuil, 1994.
- Manifestes médiologiques, Paris: Gallimard, 1994. Evaluation of his previous mediological writings.
- Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms, trans. Eric Rauth, London: Verso, 1996. (English)
- Transmettre, Odile Jacob, 1997.
- Transmitir, trans. Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 1997, 190 pp. (Spanish)
- Transmitting Culture, trans. Eric Rauth, New York: University of Columbia Press, 2000, 155 pp, ARG, ch.1; 2004. Review, Commentary. (English)
- Les enjeux et les moyens de la transmission, Plein Feux, 1998.
- Introduction à la médiologie, Paris: PUF, 1999.
- Introducción a la mediología, trans. Nuria Pujol i Valls, Barcelona and Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2001. (Spanish)
- Einführung in die Mediologie, trans. Susanne Loetscher, Bern: Haupt, 2003. (German)
- Des machines et des âmes, Descartes & Cie, 2002.
- with Patrice Hugues and Patrick Bazin, Dictionnaire culturel du tissu, Babylone/Fayard, 2005.
- Rêverie de gauche, Flammarion, 2012.
Editor
- Cahiers de médiologie, ed. Régis Debray, journal, 1996-2004.
- Medium, ed. Régis Debray, quarterly journal, since 2004.
- Les Cahiers de médiologie. Une anthologie, CNRS Éditions, 2009.
Selected articles
- "Remarks on the Spectacle", trans. Eric Rauth, New Left Review I/214, Nov-Dec 1995. [4]. Talk given at the conference Towards a Theory of the Image held at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 1995. (English)
- "Socialism: A Life Cycle", New Left Review 46, Jul-Aug 2007, pp 5-28, PDF. (English)
- "Decline of the West?", New Left Review 80, Mar-Apr 2013. [5] (English)
Bibliography
Literature
- Constantina Papoulias, "Of Tools and Angels: Régis Debray’s Mediology", Theory, Culture & Society 21 (Jun 2004), pp 165-170, PDF. (English)
- Frederic Vandenberghe, "Regis Debray and Mediation Studies, or How Does an Idea Become a Material Force?", Thesis Eleven 89 (May 2007), pp 23-42, PDF. (English)
- Steven Maras, "On Transmission: A Metamethodological Analysis (after Régis Debray)", The Fibreculture Journal 12 (2008), HTML. (English)
