Régis Debray

Intellectual, journalist, official, professor · France · Journalists · Born 1940 · age 86

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Jules Régis Debray is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic.

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2019Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie françaiseAward2016Prix Henri Texier IAward2015Prix Montaigne de BordeauxAward2013Manès-Sperber-PreisAward2005Honorary Doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne UniversityAward2004Prix François Mauriac (Aquitaine)Award2003Prix Combourg-ChateaubriandAward2001Prix MoronAward1998Prix du livre politiqueAward1996“Today” PrizeAwardPrix DécembreAward1993Joseph-Kessel PrizeAward1977Prix FeminaAward1967“We are never completely contemporaneous with our present.”In their wordsp.17Read the whole statement

“In each country that has experienced a revolution a confrontation has taken place between revolutionaries on one side and reformists and future renegades on the other.”In their wordsp. 23Read the whole statement

“Today, self-defense as a system and as a reality has been liquidated by the march of events.”In their wordsp. 27Read the whole statement

“In order to destroy one army, another army is necessary, and this ipmlies training, discipline, and arms. Freternity and bravery do not make an army.”In their wordsp. 35Read the whole statement

“We know that Trotskyism flies in the face of common sense, in that its strength lies in its division. It is everywhere and nowhere. It exposes itself by hiding itself.”In their wordsp. 36Read the whole statement

“Condemned to exist in the present within the categories of the past, Trotskyism withers on the vine.”In their wordsp. 36Read the whole statement

1960Concours généralAward1940Born2 September 1940

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Debray criticising his Bolivia incarceration after release.

Debray pictured in Primera Plana, 1970

Debray at a 2016 France Culture philosophy forum

In their own words 6

Régis Debray

6 statements, newest first

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present.
1967, p.17, Own words
In each country that has experienced a revolution a confrontation has taken place between revolutionaries on one side and reformists and future renegades on the other.
1967, p. 23, Own words
Today, self-defense as a system and as a reality has been liquidated by the march of events.
1967, p. 27, Own words

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Awards

Grand prix de littérature de l'Académie française2019

Prix Henri Texier I2016

Prix Montaigne de Bordeaux2015

Manès-Sperber-Preis2013

Honorary Doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University2005

Prix François Mauriac (Aquitaine)2004

Prix Combourg-Chateaubriand2003

Prix Moron2001

Prix du livre politique1998

Prix Décembre1996

“Today” Prize1996

Joseph-Kessel Prize1993

Prix Femina1977

Concours général1960

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Spouse Elizabeth Burgos

Child Laurence Debray

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Jules Régis Debray 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 in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government.

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Alejo CarpanterAlso in The Recourse to the Method (1978)

Hiam AbbassAlso in Before What Comes After (2025)

Pierre-André BoutangAlso in Journey of a “Cine-Son” (1992)

Ángela MolinaAlso in Before What Comes After (2025)

Nelson VillagraAlso in The Recourse to the Method (1978)

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