Reviews for Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Anti-semitism

The average rating for Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Anti-semitism based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-16 00:00:00 Richard Harris Guy Debord's idiosyncratic memoir feels like a future classic. It's beautifully written and elegantly constructed. His provocative insights feel increasingly relevant in our unravelling world.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-03 00:00:00 Mark Varni If you're looking for a traditional autobiography, comprised of personal anecdotes and confessions, you will likely be disappointed. Debord's panegyric to himself always maintains an ironic, self-critical distance from its author. In this lacuna, he nonetheless finds ample space to reflect on insights of a life lived against and outside of its time; an unseasonable nature brought further into focus by regular allusions to the words and thoughts of figures long gone. The second part consists entirely of quotations and graphic ephemera from the author's life and travels. The work ends with explicit instructions for translation and publishing of future editions, as well as references to subsequent volumes which Debord requested be burned shortly before his suicide. A cryptic yet moving contemplation on the follies and seasons of a life like few others, which refuses elucidation of its subject, preferring instead to render him a far stranger creature than the one we may presume to know.