Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord Why Everything is as it Seems
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Biographical note
Eric-John Russell is a researcher specializing in the areas of German Idealism, Hegelian Marxism and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. He is Editor in Chief of the Marx & Philosophy Review of Books and a founding editor of Cured Quail.<i>Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord</i> both contributes to this restoration and offers some revisions of the studies that preceded it. But in doing so, it provides far more than a mere analysis of Hegel’s influence on Debord.
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Eric-John Russell is a brilliant and ingenious young writer and critic who needs and deserves to be heard; it takes courage to listen. Find it.
Robert Hullot-Kentor, Founding Chair, Critical Theory and the Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Debord was at risk of getting reduced to a media theorist or an appendix to historical avant-gardes, fashionable and superseded at the same time. Russell's book helps to put Debord in his right place in the history of critical thought, especially by pointing out his advancement of Hegel's philosophy. By utilizing hitherto unpublished material from the Guy Debord archive at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Russell upholds with exacting detail and formidable prowess Debord's concept of the spectacle as a critical theory of society.
Anselm Jappe, Professor of Philosophy, Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari, Italy
This book makes a serious and valuable contribution to the study of Debord’s work. It demonstrates that his theory of ‘spectacle’ is not just a critique of the mass media, but rather a nuanced Hegelian social ontology that echoes some of the Frankfurt School’s central concerns. Recommended.
Tom Bunyard, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Brighton, UK
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Heretic Hegelianism, by Étienne Balibar
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Truth of the Spectacle
Chapter 2. The Speculative of the Spectacle
Chapter 3. The Value of the Spectacle
Chapter 4. The Reflection of the Spectacle
Chapter 5. The Essence of the Spectacle
Chapter 6. The Concept of the Spectacle
Appendix: The Society of the Spectacle and Its Time
References
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Editorial Board:
Amy De’ath, Contemporary Literature and Culture, King’s College London
Bev Best, Sociology, Concordia University
Cat Moir, Germanic Studies, University of Sydney
Charlotte Baumann, Philosophy, Sussex/TU Berlin
Christian Lotz, Philosophy, Michigan State University
Claudia Leeb, Political Science, Washington State University
Dimitra Kotouza, Education, University of Lincoln
Dirk Braunstein, Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt
Duy Lap Nguyen, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
Edith Gonzalez, Humanities, Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Puebla, México
Elena Louisa Lange, Japanese Studies/Philology and Philosophy, University of Zurich
John Abromeit, History, SUNY, Buffalo State, USA
Jordi Maiso, Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid
José Antonio Zamora Zaragoza, Philosophy, Spain
Kirstin Munro, Political Science, University of Texas, Rio Grande
Marcel Stoetzler, Sociology, University of Bangor
Marina Vishmidt, Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University
Mathias Nilges, Literature, St Xavier University
Matthias Rothe, German, University of Minnesota
Moishe Postone†, History, University of Chicago
Patrick Murray, Philosophy, Creighton University
Rochelle Duford, Philosophy, University of Hartford
Sami Khatib, Art, Leuphana University
Samir Gandesha, Humanities, Simon Fraser University
Verena Erlenbusch, Philosophy, University of Memphis