Anselm Jappe


Anselm Jappe is a German professor of philosophy. Jappe currently resides in Italy. Jappe has authored several works in German, French, and Italian. Jappe has lectured at several institutions in within higher education.

Biography

Anselm Jappe was born born on 3 May 1962 in Bonn. He spent his childhood in Cologne and in the Périgord. He studied in Paris and Rome where he obtained a master's and then a doctorate degree in philosophy, respectively. His advisor was Mario Perniola. A member of the Krisis Group, he has published numerous articles in different journals and reviews, including Iride, Il Manifesto, L'Indice, and Mania. He has authored several works on critical theory and is well known for his writings on the situationist international.
He is currently teaching aesthetics at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma. Since 2002/2003, he was teaching at the Accademia di Belle [Arti di Frosinone]

Notable works

Guy Debord

Guy Debord is an intellectual biography of Guy Debord and one of Jappe's most famous books. It was translated to english by Donald Nicholson-Smith who is closely tied to Debord and the Situationist International. Guy Debord is generally considered the first intellectual biography of Guy Debord, In the book, Jappe critiques and defends Debord's various ideas. Jappe makes an effort to distance Debord's ideas from postmodernist philosophers like Jean Baudrillard in order to prevent Debord's ideas from the situationist idea of recuperation.

The Self-Devouring Society

The Self-Devouring Society is a work of critical theory that argues capitalism has turned everyone into a narcissist. Jappe also argues that through constant reoccurring crises, capitalism is on track to destroy itself.

Writings on the wall

writings on the wall is a collection of essays written by Anselm Jappe between 2007 and 2010. In it, Anselm argues that capitalism has a tendency towards creating crises, through the perpetual reoccurrence of said crises, capitalism is on track towards its own destruction. The book's analysis is centered around the critique of value school of marxism and examines human emancipation along with the decomposition of capitalism.''

Books

  • 1992: Debord, Pescara: Tracce - about Guy Debord
  • 1999: by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999
  • 2004:, first published as "Part 1: The Concept of the Spectacle" in Guy Debord
  • 2003: Les Habits neufs de l'empire : remarques sur Negri, Hardt et Rufin
  • 2004: L'avant-garde inacceptable - réflexions sur Guy Debord
  • 2005: Adventures of the commodity: for a new criticism of value
  • 2017: The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics, - a collection of revised essays
  • 2020: ''Béton – Arme de construction massive du capitalisme ''