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

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