Régis Debray



































Régis Debray
Regis Debray.jpg
Born Jules Régis Debray
(1940-09-02) 2 September 1940 (age 78)
Paris, France
Occupation Journalist, writer, academic
Language French
Nationality French
Alma mater
École Normale Supérieure
Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Genre Philosophy, current events
Notable awards
Prix Femina
Prix Décembre

Jules Régis Debray (French: [dəbʁɛ]; born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic.[1] He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia during 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s.[2] He returned to France during 1973 and later had several official jobs with the French government.




Contents






  • 1 Life


    • 1.1 1960 to 1973


    • 1.2 1981 to 1995


    • 1.3 2003 onwards




  • 2 Work: mediology


  • 3 Current political views


  • 4 Personal life


  • 5 Bibliography


    • 5.1 Books


    • 5.2 Articles


    • 5.3 Reports




  • 6 References


  • 7 Further reading


  • 8 External links





Life



1960 to 1973


Born in Paris, Régis Debray studied at the École Normale Supérieure as taught by Louis Althusser. He appeared as himself in the cinema verité movie Chronique d'un été by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin during 1960. He became an "agrégé de philosophie" during 1965.


During the late 1960s he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Havana in Cuba, and became an associate of Che Guevara in Bolivia. He wrote the book Revolution in the Revolution?, which analysed the tactical and strategic doctrines then prevailing among militant socialist movements in Latin America, and acted as a handbook for guerrilla warfare that supplemented Guevara's own manual concerning the topic. It was published by Maspero in Paris during 1967 and the same year in New York (Monthly Review Press and Grove Press), Montevideo (Sandino), Milan (Feltrinelli) and Munich (Trikont).


Guevara was captured in Bolivia in the spring of 1967; on 20 April 1967 Debray had been arrested in the small town of Muyupampa, also in Bolivia. Convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerrilla group, Debray was sentenced on 17 November to 30 years in prison. He was released during 1970 after an international campaign for his release which included appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General Charles de Gaulle and Pope Paul VI. He sought refuge in Chile, where he wrote The Chilean Revolution (1972) after interviews with Salvador Allende. Debray returned to France during 1973 following the coup by Augusto Pinochet in Chile.



1981 to 1995


After the election in France of President François Mitterrand in 1981, he became an official adviser to the Président on Foreign Affairs. In this capacity he developed a policy that sought to increase France's freedom of action in the world, decrease dependence on the United States, and promote closeness with the former colonies. He was also involved in the development of the government's official ceremonies and recognition of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. He resigned during 1988. Until the mid-1990s he held a number of official jobs in France, including an honorary counselorship at France's supreme administrative court, Conseil d'État.


In 1996 he published a memoir of his life, translated into English as Régis Debray, Praised Be Our Lords (Verso, 2007).



2003 onwards


Debray was a member of the 2003 Stasi Commission, named for Bernard Stasi, which examined the origins of the 2003 French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools. Debray endorsed the 2003 law. This was in defense of French laïcité (separation of church and state) which intends to maintain citizens' equality by the prohibition of religious proselytism in the school system. Debray, however, seems to have encouraged a more subtle treatment of religious issues with regard to school history teaching in France.


Debray is preoccupied with the situation of Christian minorities in the Near East (and with the status of the Holy Places in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and elsewhere), a traditional interest of the French state, and has established an observatory to monitor the situation. His recent work investigates the religious paradigm as a social nexus able to assist collective orientation on a wide, centuries-long scale. This caused him to propose the project of an Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions, a French institute founded during 2005 for monitoring of sociological religious dynamics, and informing the public about religious issues through conferences and publications.



Work: mediology


Debray is the initiator and chief exponent of the discipline of médiologie or "mediology", which attempts to scientifically study the transmission of cultural meaning in society, whether through language or images. Mediology is characterized by its multi-disciplinary approach. It is expounded best in the English-language book Transmitting Culture (Columbia University Press, 2004). In Vie et mort de l'image (Life and Death of Image, 1995), an attempted history of the gaze, he distinguished three regimes of the images (icon, idol and vision). He also strove explicitly to prevent misunderstandings by differentiating mediology from a simple sociology of mass media. He also criticized the basic assumptions of the history of art which present art as an atemporal and universal phenomenon. According to Debray, art is a product of the Renaissance with the invention of the artist as producer of images, in contrast with previous acheiropoieta icons or other types of so-called "art," which did not primarily fulfil an artistic function but rather a religious one.



Current political views


In a February 2007 opinion-editorial in the newspaper Le Monde, Régis Debray criticized the tendency of the whole French political class to become more conservative. He also deplored the influence of the "videosphere" on modern politics, which he claimed has a tendency to individualize everything, forgetting both past and future (although he praised the loss of 1960s "messianism"), and rejecting any common national project. He criticized the new generation in politics as competent but without character, and lacking ideas: "So they [think they] recruit philosophy with André Glucksmann or Bernard-Henri Lévy and literature with Christine Angot or Jean d'Ormesson". He asked voters to endorse the "left of the left," in an attempt to end a modern "anti-politics" which has become political marketing.[3]



Personal life


Debray was married to the Venezuelan Elizabeth Burgos, they had a daughter, Laurence, born 1976.



Bibliography



Books



  • Révolution dans la révolution? et autres essais (1967)

  • La Frontière, suivi de Un jeune homme à la page [littérature] (1967)

  • Nous les Tupamaros, suivi d'apprendre d'eux (1971)

  • L'Indésirable [littérature](1975)

  • Les rendez-vous manqués (pour Pierre Goldman) [littérature] (1975)

  • Journal d'un petit bourgeois entre deux feux et quatre murs [littérature] (1976)

  • La neige brûle prix Femina [littérature] (1977)

  • Le pouvoir intellectuel en France (1979)

  • Critique de la raison politique (1981)

  • Comète ma comète [littérature] (1986)

  • Christophe Colomb, le visiteur de l'aube, suivi des Traités de Tordesillas [littérature] (1991)

  • Contretemps : Eloge des idéaux perdus (1992)

  • Trilogie "Le temps d'apprendre à vivre" I: Les Masques, une éducation amoureuse [littérature] (1992)

  • L'œil naïf (1994)

  • Manifestes medialogiques (Editions Gallimard, 1994)

  • Vie et mort de l'image (1995)

  • Contre Venise [littérature](1995)

  • A demain de Gaulle (1996)

  • La guérilla du Che (1996)

  • L'État séducteur (1997)

  • La République expliquée à ma fille (1998)

  • L'abus monumental (1999)

  • Shangaï, dernières nouvelles [littérature] (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: Par amour de l'art, une éducation intellectuelle [littérature] (2000)

  • Dieu, un itinéraire (2001, Prix Combourg 2003)

  • L'Enseignement du fait religieux dans l'école laïque (2002)

  • Le Feu sacré : Fonction du religieux (2003)

  • L’Ancien testament à travers 100 chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture (2003)

  • Le Nouveau testament à travers 100 chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture (2003)

  • À l'ombre des lumières : Débat entre un philosophe et un scientifique (2003) (Entretien avec Jean Bricmont).

  • Ce que nous voile le voile (2004)

  • Le plan vermeil [littérature](2004)


  • Empire 2.0 [littérature] (2004)

  • Le siècle et la règle [littérature](2004)

  • Le siècle et la règle. Une correspondance avec le frère Gilles-Dominique o. p.

  • Julien le Fidèle ou Le banquet des démons [théâtre] (2005)

  • Sur le pont d'Avignon, Flammarion, 2005.

  • Les communions humaines (2005)

  • Supplique aux nouveaux progressistes du XXIe siècle, Gallimard, (2006).

  • Aveuglantes Lumières, Journal en clair-obscur, Gallimard, (2006).

  • Un candide en Terre sainte, Gallimard, (2008)

  • Dégagements (Gallimard, 2010).


In English:




  • Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms (Verso, 1996).


  • Revolution In The Revolution (Grove, 2000).


  • God: An Itinerary (Verso, 2004).


  • Transmitting Culture (Columbia University Press, 2004).


  • Against Venice (Pushkin Press, 2002).



Articles


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


Reports



  • Rapport au Ministre des affaires étrangères M. Dominique de Villepin du Comité indépendant de réflexion et de propositions sur les relations Franco-Haïtiennes - Janvier 2004


References





  1. ^ Debray Growls At A World In Chaos The Times of India, December 19, 2009


  2. ^ Horne, Alistair (1972, revised 1990), Small Earthquake in Chile, London: Papermac, pp 347 and 351 [1990 edition].


  3. ^ La Coupe de l'Elysée 2007, par Régis Debray, Le Monde, 27 February 2007 (in French)




Further reading



  • T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith (Winter 1997). "Why Art Can't Kill the Situationist International". October. Retrieved 2008-04-12..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em} Also published at pp. 467–488 of book Tom McDonough (2004) (Editor) Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents. The MIT Press (April 1, 2004) 514 pages
    ISBN 0-262-63300-0
    ISBN 978-0-262-63300-0


External links







  • "Che’s Guerrilla War", 1973

  • Institut Européen en Sciences des Religions

  • Regis Debray - Revolution in the Revolution?

  • www.regisdebray.com Article subject's website (Français)

  • Symposium Théâtre, religion, politique: Les liaisons dangereuses, Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal, April the 12, 2007


  • Communication and Transmission: Régis Debray Daily Times, January 18, 2010


Videos



  • Éloge du spectacle, 04/12/2007, Center for international research University of Montréal


  • Quelle éthique pour les relations Nord-Sud ? Politique humanitaire politique étrangère, convergences et divergences 04/14/2007,Center for international research University of Montréal


  • Dramaturgies engagées, un tabou ? 04/13/2007,Center for international research University of Montréal








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