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Guy Debord

1931 - 1994

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Guy-Ernest Debord (; French: [gi dəbɔʁ]; 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 Situationist International. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Debord has received more than 1,252,438 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Guy Debord is the 249th most popular philosopher (down from 239th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from France (down from 601st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Philosopher.

Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist and filmmaker who was most famous for his book "The Society of the Spectacle."

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Guy Debord ranks 249 out of 1,267. Before him are Orosius, Michael Psellos, Theano, Iamblichus, Miskawayh, and Andronicus of Rhodes. After him are Pelagius, Aśvaghoṣa, Padmasambhava, Vladimir Solovyov, Georges Sorel, and Hugh of Saint Victor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Guy Debord ranks 26. Before him are Annie Girardot, Thomas Bernhard, Josef Masopust, Anatoly Dyatlov, Desmond Tutu, and Rupert Murdoch. After him are Leonard Nimoy, Ian Holm, João Gilberto, Dries van Agt, Johannes Rau, and D. B. Cooper. Among people deceased in 1994, Guy Debord ranks 26. Before him are Mas Oyama, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Léon Degrelle, Paul Feyerabend, Jan Tinbergen, and Dorothy Hodgkin. After him are Paul Delvaux, Telly Savalas, Domenico Modugno, Robert Doisneau, George Peppard, and André Michel Lwoff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guy Debord ranks 625 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Charles II of Navarre (1332), Marina Vlady (1938), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Juliette Binoche (1964), and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne (1611). After him are Marie of Anjou (1404), Paul Claudel (1868), Louis Renault (1877), Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Guy Debord ranks 33. Before him are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), and Roger Garaudy (1913). After him are Georges Sorel (1847), Nicole Oresme (1323), Raymond Aron (1905), Jacques Maritain (1882), François Fénelon (1651), and Bruno Latour (1947).

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