Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems

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Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Epigraph Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Translation Foreword Heretic Hegelianism Introduction The spectacle as a critical theory of society Against nominalist interpretations A fairly amiable taunting Avoiding the eyes of a blameworthy world An a priori engagement Structure of the book 1 The Truth of the Spectacle The true is the whole The whole is the untrue In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false The materialization of ideology Conclusion 2 The Speculative of the Spectacle Speculative identity Force and the understanding The interiority of things The structure of solicitation The inverted world The interiority, solicitation and inversion of the spectacle Unity and division of appearances The speculative in Feuerbach and Marx Conclusion 3 The Value of the Spectacle The spectacle as a category of the critique of political economy Value and its spectacular forms of appearance The spectacular nature of money Money as the visualization of value Money as the monopoly on use-value Hunger is never simply hunger Money as Gemeinwesen Capital as spectacle Conclusion 4 The Reflection of the Spectacle Philosophies of reflection An antinomic theory of reification An untarnished reflection A unitary theory of reification Conclusion 5 The Essence of the Spectacle The problem of indifference The relational world of the spectacle The spectacle as a reign of commensurability The optical actuality of the spectacle 6 The Concept of the Spectacle The spectacle as automatic subject The concreteness of the concept The syllogistic structure of the spectacle as concept The spectacle as self-differentiation Unity of work and leisure Unity of state and economy Unity of town and country Unity of diffuse and concentrated spectacle The coherence of the spectacle The idea of the spectacle The life of the spectacle The spirit of the spectacle Conclusion: A Nightmarish Baroque Appendix: The Society of the Spectacle and Its Time The fear of integration Beneath the ‘French fiddlededeee’, Parisian socialists are all liars and rascals The Trente glorieuses years Notes Bibliography Index