Index to Guy Debord’s
The Society of the Spectacle

 

Arabic numerals refer to theses, Roman numerals to chapter epigraphs.

absolute monarchy, 140, 189
advertising, 6, 70, 160
Africa, 113
agrarian mode of production, 127, 141
Algeria, 113
American sociologists, 192, 197
“American way of death,” 160
anarchism, 91-94
architecture, 173
art, 185-192
Art of Worldly Wisdom, The (Gracián), vi
“Asiatic mode of production,” 87
astronomy, 83
Augustine, 138
automation, 45
automobile, 28, 65, 174, 193

Bakunin, Mikhael, 78, 91-92
Baroque, 189
Bernstein, Eduard, 79, 97
Bolshevik Party; Bolshevism, 98-100, 102-103, 112
Boorstin, Daniel, 198-200
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 136
bourgeois revolution, 73, 75-76, 80, 86-88, 90, 123, 176, 189
bourgeoisie, 82, 96, 103-104, 109-111, 113, 137, 140-141, 143-144
Burckhardt, Jacob, 139
bureaucracy; bureaucratic class; bureaucratic state capitalism, 56-57, 64, 87, 91, 103-113. See also Stalinism

Capital (Marx), 88-89, 144, 151
capitalism; commodity system, 34-53, 56, 64-70, 72, 87, 96-97, 101, 104, 109-110, 114-115, 122, 140-146, 151-153, 165-166, 168-171, 193, 198, 218, etc. See also economy
Charles Edward Stuart (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”), 140
China, iii, 64, 104, 111, 113, 132, 165
Christ, Jesus, 136
Christianity, 136-138, 144, 189
Ciliga, Ante, 104
City in History, The (Mumford), 172
classes; class struggles, 24-25, 52-53, 56-57, 72, 75, 87-88, 103-104, 106-107, 113-115, 128, 221, etc.
classicism and neoclassicism, 189
Cohn, Norman, 138
colonialism and neocolonialism, 56, 133
commodity system. See capitalism
Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels), 79, 87
concentrated spectacle, 63-64, 70
Crusades, 137
Cubism, 189
culture, 180-185, 192-193, 210-211

Dadaism, 191
death, 160
détournement, 206-209
Difference Between the Systems of Fichte and Schelling, The (Hegel), 180
diffuse spectacle, 63, 65, 70

East Berlin revolt (1953), 111
Eastman, Max, 112
Ebert, Friedrich, 97
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (Marx), 215
economic crises, 82, 97, 109
economy, 16-17, 32, 40-41, 51-52, 73, 80, 82, 84, 87, 104, 123, 141, 143, etc. See also capitalism
Egypt, 113, 132
elections, 62
Engels, Friedrich, 79, 84, 89
English workers movement, 97
Essence of Christianity, The (Feuerbach), i
Evolutionary Socialism (Bernstein), 79

family, 59, 109, 172
fascism, 109
False Consciousness (Gabel), 217
feudalism, 87, 137-138, 140
Feuerbach, Ludwig, i, 206
Finance Capital (Hilferding), 95
First International (International Working Men’s Association), 90-92
Fourier, Charles, 95
Fourth International, 112
France, 104
Franco, Francisco, 94
French Revolution (1789-1799), 144, 172
Freud, Sigmund, 51
Fronde, 140

Gabel, Joseph, 217-219
German Ideology, The (Marx & Engels), 81, 137, 177
German Social Democracy, 91, 97, 101
Germany, 79, 85, 97, 101, viii
God, 136, 138, 182
Gracián, Baltasar, vi
Greece, 134-135

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 76, 78-80, 95, 127, 161, 170, 206, ix, 215
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare), v
Herodotus, 133
History and Class Consciousness (Lukács), ii, 112
Hilferding, Rudolf, 95
Hungarian revolution (1956), 111

Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), 91
idealism, 216
ideology, 84, 88, 91-99, 105-110, 123-124, 212-217, etc.
Image, The (Boorstin), 198
Industrial Revolution, 41
International Alliance for Social Democracy, 91
International Working Men’s Association (First International), 90-92
Islam, 113, 136
Italian Renaissance cities, 139

Jacobinism, 88
Jenenser Realphilosophie (Hegel), 215
Judaism, 136, 138
Jura Federation, 92

Kautsky, Karl, 98
Kennedy, John F., 61
Kerr, Clark, 193
Khrushchev, Nikita, 61
Kierkegaard, Soren, 206
Korsch, Karl, 76
Kronstadt revolt (1921), 103-104
Kuomintang, 104

labor unions, 96, 98, 114-115
language, 11, 38, 157
leisure, 27, 43, 152-153
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 98-99, 103, 112
Leninism, 105, 112-113
Lenin and the Revolution (Ciliga), 104
“Lenin’s Testament,” 112
life insurance, 160
“General Ludd,” 115
Lukács, Georg, ii, 112
Luxemburg, Rosa, 101
Lysenko, Trofim, 108

Machiavelli, Nicolo, 139, vii
Mannheim, Karl, 214
Mao Zedong, 64
Marx, Karl, 78-81, 84-85, 87-89, 91, 95, 125, 176, viii, 206
“Marxism,” 79, 84, 95, 98-99
mass media, 5, 24, 67
Materials for a Theory of the Proletariat (Sorel), 83
materialism, 216
Medici, Lorenzo de’, 139
Middle Ages, 137-138, 189
millenarian uprisings, 138
Mohammed, 136
money, 41, 49, 215
Mumford, Lewis, 172, 174

Napoleon Bonaparte, 108
neopeasantry, 177
“New Economic Policy” (Russia), 104
news, 6, 220
nomads, 127
Novalis, 131

Oriental empires, 132, 177
Ors, Eugenio d’, 189

palace revolutions, 134
Pannekoek, Anton, 116
Paris Commune (1871), iv, 85
Parliamentary Report on the Insurrection of March 18, iv
Parvus, Alexander, 103
patriotism, 109
peasants, 103-104, 113-114, 132, 138, 177
permanent revolution (theory of), 103
Phenomenology of Spirit, The (Hegel), ix
Philosophical Fragments (Kierkegaard), 206
philosophy, 19-20, 76, 182, 216
plagiarism, 207
political economy, 41, 43, 80, 84, 141
Popular Fronts (France and Spain), 104
Poverty of Philosophy, The (Marx), 147
primitive societies, 126-127, 130
Prince, The (Machiavelli), vii
proletariat. See workers
Pursuit of the Millennium, The (Cohn), 138

racism, 62, 109
railroads, 193
Red Flag, (Beijing), iii
reformism, 96-98, 220
Reisman, David, 192
religion, 20, 25, 59, 67, 132, 135-138, 144, 186, 199
Renaissance, 139
reserve army of the unemployed, 45
revolution, 75, 87-88, 94, 101, 114, 143, 162-163, 178, etc.
revolutionary organization, 90, 93, 112, 116-122
revolutionary theory, 78-81, 84-86, 90, 120-121, 123-124, 185, 203-206, 209, 211, 221
Rizzi, Bruno, 104
Roman Empire, 135, 138
Romanticism, 189
Rote Fahne, Die (Berlin), 101
Ruge, Arnold, viii
Russia, 97-100, 102-104, 108-113

Saint-Simonism, 83
science, 41-42, 81-87, 89, 95-97
Second International, 95-96, 98-99
second industrial revolution, 42
second proletarian assault, 115
serf uprisings, 87
semihistorical religions, 135-136, 138
service sector, 45, 114
Shakespeare, William, v
Situationists, 191
slave revolts, 87
social democracy, 96-97, 99-101, 103
sociology, 42, 192, 196-197, 200
Sombart, Werner, 83
Sorel, Georges, 83
Sorensen, Theodore, 61
soviets (Russian workers councils), 90, 103
Spain, 93-94, 104
Spanish revolution (1936-1939), 94
Spartakist League, 97
sports, 62
Stalin, Joseph, 70, 103-104, 107
Stalinism, 105, 107-111, 113. See also bureaucracy
stars, 60-61, 64
state, 24, 64, 87-88, 91-92, 103-104, 109, 114, 131, 139-140, 176-177, 179, etc.
Stirner, Max, 78
structuralism, 196, 201-202
Surrealism, 191
survival (as opposed to life), 40, 44, 47, 150

technology, 24, 28, 45, 131, 171
television, 28, 153
“Theses on Feuerbach” (Marx), 216
“Theses on Hegel and Revolution” (Korsch), 76
Third International, 104
tourism, 152, 168, 172
Trotsky, Leon, 103, 112
Trotkyism, 112-113

underdeveloped countries, 57, 113
United States of America, 153, 193, 198
urbanism (city planning), 65, 169-174, 177, 179, 192
utopian socialists, 83, 95

vacations, 60, 150

Whyte, William H., 192
work; wage labor, 26-27, ii, 40, 45, 47, 97, 104, 140
workers; proletariat, 31, 43, 53, 77-78, 85-88, 90-91, 94-97, 100-103, 111, 114-119, 122-123, 143, 159, 172, 178-179, 203, etc.
workers councils, 111, 116-119, 179, 221. See also soviets
Workers’ Opposition (radical faction within Bolshevik Party), 103
World War I, 97, 99
writing, 131

youth, 62, 115, 160

 

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Index to Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Paris, 1967). This translation by Ken Knabb is from the annotated edition published by PM Press (2024).

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