ISBN:
9781350157651
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Series Statement:
Critical Theory and the Critique of Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Debord, Guy,-1931-1994.-Société du spectacle
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
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