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Jules Régis Debray (1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic.
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==Works==
 
==Works==
(in French unless noted)
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(in French unless noted otherwise)
===Monographs on mediology===
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===Monographs===
* ''Le pouvoir intellectuel en France'', Ramsay, 1979; Paris: Gallimard, 1989. . [http://newleftreview.org/I/126/francis-mulhern-teachers-writers-celebrities-intelligentsias-and-their-histories Commentary].
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c584176c3a0ed90b3d0500 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. [https://www.versobooks.com/books/2580-revolution-in-the-revolution] {{en}}
** ''Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France'', London: New Left Books, 1981. (in English)
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* ''Le pouvoir intellectuel en France'', Ramsay, 1979; Paris: Gallimard, 1989. [http://newleftreview.org/I/126/francis-mulhern-teachers-writers-celebrities-intelligentsias-and-their-histories Commentary].
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** ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5d69a8e99ff37c339b622bc9 Teachers, Writers, Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Modern France]'', London: New Left Books, 1981. [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n12/alan-sheridan/foquismo Review], [http://newleftreview.org/I/126/francis-mulhern-teachers-writers-celebrities-intelligentsias-and-their-histories Review]. {{en}}
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* ''Le scribe, Genèse du politique'', Grasset, 1980.
 
* ''Le scribe, Genèse du politique'', Grasset, 1980.
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* ''Critique de la raison politique ou l’inconscient religieux'', Gallimard, 1981; 1987.
 
* ''Critique de la raison politique ou l’inconscient religieux'', Gallimard, 1981; 1987.
** ''Critique of Political Reason'', Verso, 2014, 384 pp. (in English) [http://www.versobooks.com/books/592-critique-of-political-reason]
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** ''Critique of Political Reason'', Verso, 2014, 384 pp. [http://www.versobooks.com/books/592-critique-of-political-reason] {{en}}
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* ''Cours de médiologie générale, bibliothèque des idées'', Paris: Gallimard, 1991.  
 
* ''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. . [http://www2.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/debray-review.htm Review].
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** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Vida_e_Morte_da_Imagem.pdf|Vida e morte da imagem: uma história do olhar no ocidente]]'', trans. Guilherme Teixeira, Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 1994, 376 pp. (in Portuguese)
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/5650842b9ff37c39baa7cd14 Vie et mort de l'image: une histoire du regard en Occident]'', Paris: Gallimard, 1992. [http://www2.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/debray-review.htm Review].
** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Vida_y_Muerte_de_la_Imagen.pdf|Vida y muerte de la imagen: historia de la mirada en occidente]]'', trans. Ramón Hervás, Barcelona/Buenos Aires/México: Paidós, 1994, 318 pp. (in Spanish)
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** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Vida_e_Morte_da_Imagem.pdf|Vida e morte da imagem: uma história do olhar no ocidente]]'', trans. Guilherme Teixeira, Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 1994, 376 pp. {{br-pt}}
** ''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. (in German) [http://www.shop.avinus.de/debray_jenseits_der_bilder_3]
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** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Vida_y_Muerte_de_la_Imagen.pdf|Vida y muerte de la imagen: historia de la mirada en occidente]]'', trans. Ramón Hervás, Barcelona/Buenos Aires/México: Paidós, 1994, 318 pp. {{es}}
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** ''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.[http://www.shop.avinus.de/debray_jenseits_der_bilder_3] {{de}}
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* ''L’État séducteur, les révolutions médiologiques du pouvoir'', Paris: Gallimard, 1993.  
 
* ''L’État séducteur, les révolutions médiologiques du pouvoir'', Paris: Gallimard, 1993.  
** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_El_Estado_seductor_Las_revoluciones_mediologicas_del_poder.pdf|El Estado seductor. Las revoluciones mediologicas del poder]]'', trans. Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 1995. (in Spanish)
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** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_El_Estado_seductor_Las_revoluciones_mediologicas_del_poder.pdf|El Estado seductor: las revoluciones mediologicas del poder]]'', trans. Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 1995. {{es}}
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* ''L’œil naïf'', Paris: Seuil, 1994.
 
* ''L’œil naïf'', Paris: Seuil, 1994.
* ''Manifestes médiologiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 1994.  
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1095 Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms]'', trans. Eric Rauth, Verso, 1996.
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* ''Manifestes médiologiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 1994. Evaluation of his previous mediological writings.
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1095 Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms]'', trans. Eric Rauth, London: Verso, 1996. {{en}}
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* ''Transmettre'', Odile Jacob, 1997.  
 
* ''Transmettre'', Odile Jacob, 1997.  
** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Transmitir.pdf|Transmitir]]'', trans. Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 1997, 190 pp. (in Spanish)
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** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Transmitir.pdf|Transmitir]]'', trans. Horacio Pons, Buenos Aires: Manantial, 1997, 190 pp. {{es}}
** ''Transmitting Culture'', trans. Eric Rauth, New York: University of Columbia Press, 2000, 155 pp, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/8536adb6a33fd0a33737c34e85d645f5#1.006 ARG 2-up, ch.1]; 2004. (in English). [http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Papoulias-Review-Debray-Transmission-2004.pdf Review], [http://www.jcrt.org/archives/08.1/nayar.pdf Commentary].
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** ''Transmitting Culture'', trans. Eric Rauth, New York: University of Columbia Press, 2000, 155 pp, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c584176c3a0ed90b3e0500 ARG, ch.1]; 2004. [http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Papoulias-Review-Debray-Transmission-2004.pdf Review], [http://www.jcrt.org/archives/08.1/nayar.pdf Commentary]. {{en}}
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* ''Les enjeux et les moyens de la transmission'', Plein Feux, 1998.  
 
* ''Les enjeux et les moyens de la transmission'', Plein Feux, 1998.  
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* ''Introduction à la médiologie'', Paris: PUF, 1999.  
 
* ''Introduction à la médiologie'', Paris: PUF, 1999.  
** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Introduccion_a_la_mediologia.pdf|Introducción a la mediología]]'', trans. Nuria Pujol i Valls, Barcelona and Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2001. (in Spanish)
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** ''[[Media:Debray_Regis_Introduccion_a_la_mediologia.pdf|Introducción a la mediología]]'', trans. Nuria Pujol i Valls, Barcelona and Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2001. {{es}}
** ''[http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=41BEEC2549F3ED7AF48542E17F7746B4 Einführung in die Mediologie]'', trans. Susanne Loetscher, Bern: Haupt, 2003. (in German)
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** ''[http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=41BEEC2549F3ED7AF48542E17F7746B4 Einführung in die Mediologie]'', trans. Susanne Loetscher, Bern: Haupt, 2003. {{de}}
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* ''Des machines et des âmes'', Descartes & Cie, 2002.  
 
* ''Des machines et des âmes'', Descartes & Cie, 2002.  
* with Patrice Hugues and Patrick Bazin, ''Dictionnaire culturel du tissu'', Babylone/Fayard, 2005.  
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* with Patrice Hugues and Patrick Bazin, ''Dictionnaire culturel du tissu'', Babylone/Fayard, 2005.
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* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/51c58cf66c3a0edb0ba20b00 Rêverie de gauche]'', Flammarion, 2012.
  
 
===Editor===
 
===Editor===
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===Selected articles===
 
===Selected articles===
* "Remarks on the Spectacle", trans. Eric Rauth, ''New Left Review'' I/214 (Nov-Dec 1995), [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/6658962337cb3d3be2bd9d35373349cf#0.01 ARG]. (in English). Talk given at the conference ''Towards a Theory of the Image'' held at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 1995.
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* [[Media:Debray Regis 1995 Remarks on the Spectacle.pdf|"Remarks on the Spectacle"]], trans. Eric Rauth, ''New Left Review'' I/214, Nov-Dec 1995. [https://newleftreview.org/issues/I214/articles/regis-debray-remarks-on-the-spectacle]. Talk given at the conference ''Towards a Theory of the Image'' held at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 1995. {{en}}
* "Decline of the West?", ''New Left Review'' 80 (Mar-Apr 2013). (in English)
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* [https://newleftreview.org/issues/II46/articles/regis-debray-socialism-a-life-cycle "Socialism: A Life Cycle"], ''New Left Review'' 46, Jul-Aug 2007, pp 5-28, [[Media:Debray Regis 2007 Socialism A Life Cycle.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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* "Decline of the West?", ''New Left Review'' 80, Mar-Apr 2013. [https://newleftreview.org/issues/II80/articles/regis-debray-decline-of-the-west] {{en}}
  
 
===Bibliography===
 
===Bibliography===
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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
* Constantina Papoulias, "Of Tools and Angels: Régis Debray’s Mediology", ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 21 (Jun 2004), pp 165-170, [http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Papoulias-Review-Debray-Transmission-2004.pdf PDF]. (in English)
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* Constantina Papoulias, "Of Tools and Angels: Régis Debray’s Mediology", ''Theory, Culture & Society'' 21 (Jun 2004), pp 165-170, [http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Papoulias-Review-Debray-Transmission-2004.pdf PDF]. {{en}}
* Frederic Vandenberghe, "Regis Debray and Mediation Studies, or How Does an Idea Become a Material Force?", ''Thesis Eleven'' 89 (May 2007), pp 23-42, [http://frederic.vdb.brainwaves.be/Frederic_Vandenberghes_Personal_Website/Texts_to_Download_files/34.pdf PDF]. (in English)
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* Frederic Vandenberghe, "Regis Debray and Mediation Studies, or How Does an Idea Become a Material Force?", ''Thesis Eleven'' 89 (May 2007), pp 23-42, [http://frederic.vdb.brainwaves.be/Frederic_Vandenberghes_Personal_Website/Texts_to_Download_files/34.pdf PDF]. {{en}}
* Steven Maras, "On Transmission: A Metamethodological Analysis (after Régis Debray)", ''The Fibreculture Journal'' 12 (2008), [http://twelve.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-080-on-transmission-a-metamethodological-analysis-after-regis-debray/ HTML]. (in English)
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* Steven Maras, "On Transmission: A Metamethodological Analysis (after Régis Debray)", ''The Fibreculture Journal'' 12 (2008), [http://twelve.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-080-on-transmission-a-metamethodological-analysis-after-regis-debray/ HTML]. {{en}}
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 16:02, 1 September 2019

Jules Régis Debray (1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

Monographs

  • 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.
  • L’œil naïf, Paris: Seuil, 1994.
  • 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.
  • Des machines et des âmes, Descartes & Cie, 2002.
  • with Patrice Hugues and Patrick Bazin, Dictionnaire culturel du tissu, Babylone/Fayard, 2005.

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)

See also

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