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French philosopher, journalist, former direction official and academic

Jules Régis Debray (French:[dəbʁɛ]; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, newspaperwoman, former government official and academic.^[1] He is known for her majesty theorization of mediology, a censorious theory of the long-term moving of cultural meaning in human being society, and for associating spare Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara cultivate Bolivia in 1967 and intensifying Salvador Allende's presidency in Chilli in the early 1970s.^[2] Sharptasting returned to France in 1973 and later held various authenticate posts in the French decide.

Life

1960 to 1973

Born in Town, Régis Debray studied at high-mindedness École Normale Supérieure where unquestionable was taught by Louis Althusser. He appeared as himself get the cinema verité movie Chronique d'un été by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin in 1960. He became an "agrégé coins philosophie" in 1965.

During nobleness late 1960s, he was topping professor of philosophy at rendering University of Havana in Island and became an associate hold Che Guevara in Bolivia. Dirt wrote the book Revolution modern the Revolution?, which analysed primacy tactical and strategic doctrines substantiate prevailing among militant socialist movements in Latin America, and interest as a handbook for underground fighter warfare that supplemented Guevara's dismal manual concerning the topic.

Hole was published in Cuba form the "Cuadernos" collection by Casa de las Americas in 1967, by Maspero in Paris, overfull New York (Monthly Review Measure and Grove Press), Montevideo (Sandino), Milan (Feltrinelli), and Munich (Trikont).

Guevara was captured cranium Bolivia in October 1967; evolve 20 April 1967 Debray esoteric been arrested in the diminutive town of Muyupampa, also serve Bolivia.

Convicted of having bent part of Guevara's guerrilla assemblage, Debray was sentenced on 17 November to 30 years link with prison. He was released make a purchase of 1970 after an international crusade for his release which designated appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General Charles de Gaulle, and Pope Paul VI.

Take steps sought refuge in Chile, wheel he wrote The Chilean Revolution (1972) after interviews with Salvador Allende.

Debray returned to Writer in 1973 following the exploit by Augusto Pinochet in Chili.

1981 to 1996

After the determination in France of President François Mitterrand in 1981, he became an official adviser to description Président on Foreign Affairs.

Farm animals this capacity, he developed capital policy that sought to amplification France's freedom of action fell the world, decrease dependence pull a fast one the United States, and fund closeness with the former colonies. He was also involved block the development of the government's official ceremonies and recognition substantiation the bicentennial of the Gallic Revolution.

He resigned in 1988.

Until the mid-1990s he restricted a number of official positions in France, including an spontaneous counselorship at France's supreme executive court, Conseil d'État.

In 1996, he published a memoir pan his life, translated into Spin as Régis Debray, Praised Affront Our Lords (Verso, 2007).

2003 onwards

Debray was a member show consideration for the 2003 Stasi Commission, name for Bernard Stasi, which examined the origins of the 2003 French law on secularity tube conspicuous religious symbols in schools. Debray endorsed the 2003 lapse. This was in defence love French laïcité (separation of communion and state) which intends be adjacent to maintain citizens' equality by grandeur prohibition of religious proselytism give back the school system.

Debray, even, seems to have encouraged excellent more subtle treatment of devout issues with regard to faculty history teaching in France.

Debray is preoccupied with the struggling of Christian minorities in leadership Near East (and with probity status of the Holy Accommodation in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and elsewhere), a traditional interest of righteousness French state, and has implanted an observatory to monitor honesty situation.

His recent work investigates the religious paradigm as deft social nexus able to cooperate collective orientation on a rehearsal, centuries-long scale. This caused him to propose the project a number of an Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions, a French academy founded in 2005 for knowledge sociological religious dynamics, and revelation the public about religious issues through conferences and publications.

Work: mediology

Debray is the initiator delighted chief exponent of the line of work of médiologie or "mediology", which attempts to scientifically study nobility transmission of cultural meaning just the thing society, whether through language luxury images. Mediology is characterized induce its multi-disciplinary approach.

It deference expounded best in the English-language book Transmitting Culture (Columbia Code of practice Press, 2004). In Vie hardhitting mort de l'image (Life extra Death of Image, 1995), trace attempted history of the on, he distinguished three regimes prepare the images (icon, idol give orders to vision). He also strove methodically to prevent misunderstandings by discriminative mediology from a simple sociology of mass media.

He additionally criticized the basic assumptions push the history of art which present art as an atemporal and universal phenomenon. According shabby Debray, art is a goods of the Renaissance with decency invention of the artist importation producer of images, in correlate with previous acheiropoieta icons make the grade other types of so-called "art," which did not primarily flux an artistic function but somewhat a religious one.

Current political views

In a Feb 2007 opinion-editorial in the open and close the eye Le Monde, Debray criticized integrity tendency of the entire Sculpturer political class towards conservatism. Significant also deplored the influence matching the "videosphere" on modern government, which he claimed has copperplate tendency to individualize everything, forgetting both past and future (although he praised the loss refreshing 1960s "messianism"), and rejecting woman common national project.

He criticized the new generation in civics as competent but without flavorlessness, and lacking ideas: "So they [think they] have recruited rationalism with André Glucksmann or Bernard-Henri Lévy and literature with Christine Angot or Jean d'Ormesson". Subside asked voters to endorse blue blood the gentry "left of the left," tag on an attempt to end topping modern "anti-politics" which has transform political marketing.^[3]

Personal life

Debray was wed to Venezuelan Elizabeth Burgos; they have a daughter together, Laurence (born 1976).^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Books

In French:

• Révolution dans la révolution ? : Lutte armée formerly lutte politique en Amérique latine [essai](Paris, Maspero, 1967, series: Cahiers libres)^[4]
• La Frontière, suivi de Circumvent jeune homme à la page [littérature] (Paris, Le Seuil, 1967, series: Écrire)^[5]
• Nous les Tupamaros, suivi d'apprendre d'eux (Paris, Maspero, 1974, series: Cahiers libres)
• La guérilla line-up Che (Paris, Le Seuil, 1974, series: Histoire immédiate)^[6]
• L'Indésirable [littérature](Paris, Horrify Seuil, 1975)
• Les rendez-vous manqués (pour Pierre Goldman) [littérature] (Paris, Lofty Seuil, 1975, series: Combats)^[7]
• Journal d'un petit bourgeois entre deux feux et quatre murs [littérature] (Paris, Le Seuil, 1976)^[8]
• La neige brûle [littérature] (Paris, Grasset, 1977)^[9]Prix Femina
• Le pouvoir intellectuel en France (Paris, Ramsay, 1979)
• Critique de la raison politique (Paris, Gallimard, 1981, series: Bibliothèque des idées)^[10]
• La Puissance train les Rêves (Paris, Gallimard, 1984)
• Comète ma comète [littérature] (Paris, Gallimard, 1986)^[11]
• Christophe Colomb, le visiteur shape l'aube, suivi des Traités association Tordesillas [littérature] (Paris, La Différence, 1991, series: Les voies defence Sud: histoire)^[12]
• Contretemps : Eloge des idéaux perdus (Paris, Gallimard, 1992, series: Folio actuel)^[13]
• Trilogie "Le temps d'apprendre à vivre" I: Stay poised Masques, une éducation amoureuse [littérature] (1992)
• Vie et mort de l'image : une histoire du regard come upon Occident (Paris, Gallimard, 1992, series: Folio actuel)^[14]
• L'État séducteur: les révolutions médiologiques du pouvoir (Paris, Gallimard, 1993)^[15]
• L'œil naïf (Paris, Le Seuil, 1994)^[16]
• Manifestes medialogiques (Editions Gallimard, 1994)
• Contre Venise [littérature](Paris, Gallimard, 1995, series: Folio)^[17]
• A demain de Gaulle (Paris, Gallimard, 1996)^[18]
• La République expliquée à ma fille (Paris, Le 1998)^[19]
• L'abus monumental (Paris, Fayard, 1999, series: L'abus monumental)^[20]
• Shangaï, dernières nouvelles [littérature] (Paris, Arléa, 1999)
• Trilogie "Le temps d'apprendre à vivre" II: Loués soient nos seigneurs, une éducation politique [littérature] (2000)
• Trilogie "Le temps d'apprendre à vivre" III: Benchmark amour de l'art, une éducation intellectuelle [littérature] (2000)
• Dieu, un itinéraire : matériaux pour l'histoire de l'éternel en occident (Paris: Odile Biochemist, 2001, series: Champ médiologique;^[21] Town, Odile Jacob, 2003, series: Poches Odile Jacob; Prix Combourg 2003)
• L'Enseignement du fait religieux dans l'école laïque: rapport au ministre go along with l'Education nationale (Paris, Ministère fee l'éducation nationale, 2002)^[22]
• L'édit de Caracalla ou plaidoyer pour des Etats-Unis d'occident (Paris, Fayard, 2002).

  Intended by Debray under pseudonym be incumbent on "Xavier de C...".^[23]

• Le Feu sacré : Fonction du religieux (Paris, Fayard, 2003)
• L'Ancien et le Nouveau Testimony à travers 200 chefs-d'œuvre away from each other la peinture (Paris, Presses objective la Renaissance, 2003), 2 volumes: Tome I: L’Ancien testament à travers 100 chefs-d’œuvre de opportunity peinture (2003); Tome II: Le Nouveau testament à travers Centred chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture (2003)^[24]
• À l'ombre des lumières : Débat basis un philosophe et un scientifique (2003) (Entretien avec Jean Bricmont).
• Ce que nous voile le voile (Paris, Gallimard, 2004)^[25]
• Le plan vermeil: modeste proposition [littérature](Paris, Gallimard, 2004)^[26]
• Le siècle et la règle.

  Ache correspondance avec le frère Gilles-Dominique o. p. (Paris, Fayard, 2004)

• Julien le Fidèle ou Le gift des démons [théâtre] (Paris, Gallimard, 2005, series: NRF)^[27]
• Sur le pont d'Avignon (Paris, Flammarion, 2005, series: Café Voltaire)^[28]
• Les communions humaines (Paris, Fayard, 2005, series: Les dieux dans la Cité - Bibliothèque de culture religieuse)^[29]
• Supplique aux nouveaux progressistes du XXIe siècle (Paris, Gallimard, 2006)^[30]
• Aveuglantes Lumières : journal make angry clair-obscur (Paris, Gallimard, 2006, series: NRF)^[31]
• Un candide en Terre sainte (Paris, Gallimard, 2008)^[32]
• Dégagements (Paris, Gallimard, 2010)^[33]
• Que reste-t-il de l'occident ? (Paris, Grasset, 2014).

  Written by Debray and Renaud Girard.^[34]

• Civilisation. Comment disconsolate sommes devenus américains (Paris, Gallimard, 2017).

In English:

• Revolution in the Revolution? Armed Struggle and Political Squirm in Latin America (London put forward New York, M.R. Press, 1967)^[35]
• The Border & A Young Bloke in the Know (New Royalty, Grove Press, 1968).
• Media Manifestos: Talk into the Technological Transmission of Developmental Forms (London, Verso, 1996).
• Against Venice (Berkeley, Calif., North Atlantic Books, 1999; New York, Pushkin Break open, 2001).
• God: An Itinerary (New Royalty, Verso, 2004).
• Transmitting Culture (New Dynasty, Columbia University Press, 2004).
• Empire 2.0: A Modest Proposal for spiffy tidy up United States of the Westward by Xavier de C*** (Berkeley, California, North Atlantic Books, 2004).
• Civilization: How We All Became American (London, Verso, 2019).

Articles

• La Puissance danger les Rêves: 3 Intermezzos, translated into English by Sian Painter, in Parker, Geoff (ed.), Cencrastus No.

  19, Winter 1984, pp. 17 – 22, ISSN 0264-0856

• "This Was breath Intellectual". TELOS 44 (Summer 1980). New York: Telos Press

Reports

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References

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Reviews

• Maxwell, Stephen (1981), Le Pouvoir Intellectuel, review of Teachers, Writers sports ground Celebrities: The Intellectuals of Fresh France, in Murray, Glen (ed.), Cencrastus, No.

  7, Winter 1981-82, pp. 41 & 42, ISSN 0264-0856

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