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

by Eric-John Russell, Chris O’Kane (Editor), Werner Bonefeld (Editor)

Revisiting Guy Debord's seminal work, The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Eric-John Russell breathes new life into a text which directly preceded and informed the revolutionary fervour of May 1968. Deepening the analysis between Debord and Marx by revealing the centrality of Hegel's speculative logic to both, he traces Debord's intellectual debt to Hegel in a way that treads new ground for critical theory. Drawing extensively from The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and Science of Logic (1812), this book illustrates the lasting impact of Debord's critical theory of twentieth-century capitalism and reveals new possibilities for the critique of capitalism.

Genres: Philosophy

270 pages, Hardcover

Published March 11, 2021

Reviews

[Ron Adams]

A deeply thorough and systematic analysis of Debords concept of Spectacle through the Spectacular Logic of Hegel will provide orientation and framework for future analysis. This work is entirely novel and opens new perspectives for a critique of contemporary society that extends beyond the revolutionary class struggle to a new struggle to control the way we live our collective and individual lives.