Anselm Jappe (born 3 May 1962,

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

) is a German professor of

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

Biography

He grew up in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

and in the

Périgord Périgord ( , ; ; oc, Peiregòrd / ) is a natural region and former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne department, now forming the northern part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is div ...

. He studied in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...

and

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus ( legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

where he obtained, respectively, a

master's A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

and then a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

degree in philosophy. His advisor was

Mario Perniola Mario Perniola (20 May 1941 – 9 January 2018) was an Italian philosopher, professor of aesthetics and author. Many of his works have been published in English. Biography Mario Perniola was born in Asti, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under Luig ...

. A member of the Krisis Groupe, he has published numerous articles in different journals and reviews, including ''Iride'' (Florence), ''Il Manifesto'' (Rome), ''L'Indice'' (Milan) and ''Mania'' (Barcelona). In his writings, he has attempted to revive

critical theory A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from s ...

through a new interpretation of the work of

Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

. He is currently teaching

aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed t ...

at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari. Since 2002/2003 he was teaching at the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone The Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone is an academy of Fine arts located in Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located abo ...

Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone:Anselm Jappe

Books

*1992: ''Debord'', Pescara: Tracce - about

Guy Debord Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situation ...

**1999
English translation
by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Berkeley:

University of California Press The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by facul ...

, 1999 **2004
An Imbecile's Guide to Guy Debord's concept of the Spectacle
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'' (with Robert Kurz) (Editions Lignes) *2004: ''L'avant-garde inacceptable - réflexions sur

'' (Editions lignes-Léo Sheer) *2005: ''Adventures of the commodity: for a new criticism of value'' (Munich) *2017" ''The Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics'', - a collection of revised essays

References

1962 births Writers from Bonn Living people German Marxists German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub