Raoul VANEIGEM

Raoul VANEIGEM

Raoul VANEIGEM Raoul Vaneigem est un écrivain et philosophe belge, né en 1934. Il rejoint, très jeune, le mouvement situationniste, dont il fut un des penseur les plus marquants, aux côtés notamment de Guy Debord.<br />L'une de ses œuvres les plus célèbres est son <em>Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations</em>, paru en 1967, qui eut une influence sensible sur le mouvement de Mai 68.<br />Résolument ancré dans son temps, à l’écoute du bruit du monde, et de ses injustices, Raoul Vaneigem est une figure majeure du mouvement libertaire.

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Revolution of Everyday Life

Raoul VANEIGEM

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Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” from the point of view of individual experience. Whereas Debord’s masterful analysis of the new historical conditions that triggered the uprisings of the 1960s armed the revolutionaries of the time with theory, Vaneigem’s book described their feelings of desperation directly, and armed them with “formulations capable of firing point-blank on our enemies.” “I realise,” writes Vaneigem in his introduction, “that I have given subjective will an easy time in this book, but let no one reproach me for this without first considering the extent to which the objective conditions of the contemporary world advance the cause of subjectivity day after day.” Vaneigem names and defines the alienating features of everyday life in consumer society: survival rather than life, the call to sacrifice, the cultivation of false needs, the dictatorship of the commodity, subjection to social roles, and above all the replacement of God by the Economy. And in the second part of his book, “Reversal of Perspective,” he explores the countervailing impulses that, in true dialectical fashion, persist within the deepest alienation: creativity, spontaneity, poetry, and the path from isolation to communication and participation. For “To desire a different life is already that life in the making.” And “fulfillment is expressed in the singular but conjugated in the plural.” The present English translation was first published by Rebel Press of London in 1983. This new edition of The Revolution of Everyday Life has been reviewed and corrected by the translator and contains a new preface addressed to English-language readers by Raoul Vaneigem. The book is the first of several translations of works by Raoul Vaneigem that PM Press plans to publish in uniform volumes. Vaneigem’s classic work is to be followed by The Knight, the Lady, the Devil, and Death (2003) and The Inhumanity of Religion (2000).
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Letter to My Children and the Children of the World to Come

Raoul VANEIGEM

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Readers of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism. Written some thirty-five years after the May “events,” this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. “How could I address my daughters, my sons, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” wonders Vaneigem, “without including all the others who, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power, are in danger, even tomorrow, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?” A Letter to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world, but at the same time, in true dialectical fashion, and “far from the media whose job it is to ignore them,” Vaneigem discerns all the signs of “a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations, a new drive to reinstate true human values, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.”
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Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings

Raoul VANEIGEM

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“A declaration of rights is indispensable in order to halt the ravages of despotism.” So wrote the revolutionary Antoine Barnave in support of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789). Over two centuries after the Great French Revolution, Raoul Vaneigem writes that today, “in a situation comparable to the condition of France on the eve of its Revolution,” we cannot limit ourselves to demanding liberties—the so-called bourgeois freedoms—that came into being with free trade, for now the free exchange of capital is the totalitarian form of a system which reduces human beings and the earth itself to merchandise. The time has come to give priority to the real individual rather than to Man in the abstract, the citizen answerable to the State and to the sole dictates of God’s successor, the economy. Sometimes playful or poetic, always provocative, Vaneigem reviews the history of bills of rights before offering his own call, with commentary, for fifty-eight rights yet to be won in a world where the “freedoms accorded to Man” are no longer merely “the freedoms accorded by man to the economy.” Every human being has the right, for example: to become human and to be treated as such; to dispose freely of their time; to comfort and luxury; to free modes of transport set up by and for the collectivity; to permanent control over scientific experimentation; to association by affinity; to bend toward life what was turned toward death; to the flux of passions and the freedoms of love; to a natural life and a natural death; to hold nothing sacred; to excess and to moderation; to desire what seems beyond the realm of the possible. Readers of Vaneigem’s now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life will find much to engage with in this unique work of subversive utopianism.
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Lettre à mes enfants et aux enfants du monde à venir

Raoul VANEIGEM

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59 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 44min.
Après la Nuit des Temps, voici venir le Jour des Temps... La question " Quel monde allons-nous laisser à nos enfants ? " mérite davantage que les roulements de tambour de l'indignation. Il y a quelque inconséquence à promouvoir l'angélisme des bonnes intentions sans prémunir contre les monstres de la violence ordinaire, qui n'en feront qu'une bouchée. Beaucoup vitupèrent la barbarie et l'absurdité dominantes à défaut de jeter les bases d'une société enfin affranchie des rapports marchands et du totalitarisme financier. Alors qu'une civilisation, alliant développement technologique et sous-développement humain, agonise dans la boue et le sang, de nouvelles valeurs se font jour et se substituent aux anciennes. J'ai été sensible à ce souffle nouveau qui stimule – non seulement chez mes enfants et mes petits-enfants, mais aussi chez un nombre croissant de jeunes gens – une volonté d'instaurer de véritables valeurs humaines (solidarité, créativité, générosité, savoir, réinvention de l'amour, alliance avec la nature, attrait festif de la vie), en rupture avec les valeurs patriarcales (autorité, sacrifice, travail, culpabilité, servilité, clientélisme, contention et défoulement des émotions), essentiellement axées sur la prédation, l'argent, le pouvoir et cette séparation d'avec soi d'où procèdent la peur, la haine et le mépris de l'autre. À l'abri des médias qui font métier de l'ignorer, une société vivante se construit clandestinement sous la barbarie et les ruines du Vieux Monde. Il n'est pas inutile de montrer de quelle façon elle se manifeste et comment elle progressera. R. V.
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