Debord, Time and Spectacle - Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory

A detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International that helps to uncover a philosophy of praxis that remains useful today.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Radioactivity

Subjectivity, Temporality and Spectacle

1 Interpreting the Theory of Spectacle

2 Five Aspects of Debord’s Theoretical Work

The New Beauty: 1951–62

3 ‘We are Artists Insofar as We are No Longer Artists’

4 The Everyday and the Absolute

5 ‘Avant-Gardes Have Only One Time’

‘Everything that had Formerly been Absolute Became Historical’

6 Debord and French Hegelianism

7 Subjects and Objects: Debord, Lukács and the Young Marx

8 Life and Non-life

In Pursuit of the Northwest Passage: 1963–73

9 Never Work!

10 ‘I am Nothing and I Should be Everything’

11 The ‘Fetishism of Capital’

The Integrated Spectacle: 1974–94

12 Moving with History’s ‘Bad Side’

13 Strategy and Tactics in the Integrated Spectacle

14 The Knight, Death and the Devil

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Tom Bunyard, Ph.D. (2012), Goldsmiths, is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Programme at the University of Brighton. He has published several articles on the relationship between Debord, Hegel and Marx, and works on critical theory and philosophy of history.

Summary

A detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International that helps to uncover a philosophy of praxis that remains useful today.

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: Tom Bunyard
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2019
• EAN: 9781608460793
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-079-3
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, Philosophy, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, General and world history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General