Praised Be Our Lords: The Autobiography [Paperback]

"Keeps breaking into well-informed sense and keen insight." - Guardian "God: An Itinerary is a stylistic tour de force, Nietzschean in its seductive rhetoric, lightly worn erudition, aphoristic insights and provocative asides." - London Review of Books"

This is the fascinating autobiography of one of France's leading political activists and intellectuals. Regis Debray is one of France's leading contemporary intellectuals and commentators, whose life has intersected with some of the key moments of the twentieth century. In this elegantly crafted memoir, Debray traces his route from the Parisian lecture theatres of the Rue d'Ulm with Althusser and his students, to Cuba and his deep involvement with the revolution, to the Bolivian jungle where, in search of Che Guevara, Debray was captured, tortured, and imprisoned and only released after an international campaign, and finally to the state offices of the Elysee Palace where he served as an advisor to Francois Mitterrand in the early 1980s. More than simply a fascinating memoir, "Praised Be Our Lords" is also an exploration of the mechanisms of political passion - what leads a person towards and away from commitment and even treachery.

Regis Debray teaches philosophy at the Universite de Lyon-III and is director of the European Institute of the History and Science of Religion at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes. He is the author of many books, including Media Manifestos and God: An Itinerary, also available from Verso.