Régis Debray
| Régis Debray | |
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| Born |
2 September 1940 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer, academic |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| 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. 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. He returned to France during 1973 and later had several official jobs with the French government.
Born in Paris, Regis 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).
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