Régis Debray

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

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

Monographs

• Révolution dans la révolution? lutte armée et lutte politique en Amérique latine, Paris: Maspero, 1967, 138 pp.
  • Revolution in the Revolution: Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America, trans. Bobbye Ortiz, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967, 211 pp; repr., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980, 126 pp; new ed., trans. Gregory Elliott and Bobbye Ortiz, London: Verso, 2017, 128 pp. [1] (English)

• Strategy for Revolution: Essays on Latin America, Monthly Review Press, 1970. {(English)

• Prison Writings, Random House, 1973. {(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)

• Contre Venise, Paris: Gallimard, 1995, 74 pp.
  • Against Venice, trans. Philip Wohlstetter, Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1999, xiv+114 pp. (English)
  • Against Venice, trans. John Howe, afterw. Régis Debray, London: Pushkin, 2001, 78 pp; repr., 2012. (English)

• Loués soient nos seigneurs: une éducation politique, Paris: Gallimard, 1996, 592 pp.
  • Praised Be Our Lords: A Political Education, trans. John Howe, London: Verso, 2007, 328 pp. (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, Paris: Flammarion, 2012.

• Civilisation: comment nous sommes devenus Américains, Paris: Gallimard, 2017, 230 pp.
  • Civilization: How We All Became American, trans. David Fernbach, London: Verso, 2010, 192 pp. Publisher. (English)

• Un été avec Paul Valéry, Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer: Équateurs, and Paris: France Inter, 2019, 173 pp.

• Du génie français, Paris: Gallimard, 2019, 120 pp.

• D'un siècle à l'autre', Paris: Gallimard, 2020, 299 pp.

• Le siècle vert: un changement de civilisation, Paris: Gallimard, 2020, 64 pp.

• Éclats de rire, Paris: Gallimard, 2021, 57 pp.

• Sur les chemins du paradis: l'historicité du paradis dans les trois religions du livre judaïsme, christianisme et islam, Vanves: Hazan, 2021, 192 pp.

• with Benjamin Stora, Penser les frontières, Montrouge: Bayard, 2021, 86 pp.

• with Didier Leschi and Jean-François Colosimo, République ou barbarie, Paris: Cerf, 2021, 155 pp.

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

• http://regisdebray.com/bibliographie-thematique

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

• Mediology

Links

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