The situationist international: a critical handbook
- Submitting institution
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 108244323
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.2307/j.ctvzsmdw0
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- ISBN
- 9780745338903
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Situationist International: A Critical Handbook is an edited volume that brings together leading scholars, both established names and early-to-mid career, from institutions all over the world. These include scholars based in the UK, France, Australia, Denmark, Canada, Brazil and the United States. Rather than the product of conference proceedings, Dr Hemmens and his co-editor, Dr Gabriel Zacarias, conceived of the volume from the very start as a conscious interdisciplinary intervention into a field of research that has historically been characterised by a lack of critical consensus on basic issues and where important topics, such as race, sexuality, colonialism and gender, have been largely neglected.
The contribution of Dr Hemmens to the volume includes two single-authored chapters (on the concepts of ‘radical subjectivity’ and ‘alienation’), two co-authored chapters (a critical introduction outlining the current situation of the field and the nature of the book’s intervention as well as a chapter on the key concept of ‘spectacle’), and the translation of six chapters from French into English that could not otherwise have appeared in the book. Dr Hemmens and his co-editor also conceived of the exact nature of the book’s intervention and approached the contributors to write about specific subjects.
The chapter on ‘The Abolition of Alienated Labour’ (pp. 201-11) summarises some key arguments made in the chapter on the Situationists in The Critique of Work in Modern French Thought. However, the chapter was intentionally written in such a way as to explore substantially new and under examined areas. Specifically, it focuses on textual evidence for the genealogy of the concept of alienation in Schiller’s Aesthetic Education and Marx’s early work, and, through textual analysis, places much greater emphasis on the contribution of Raoul Vaneigem.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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