This article is about the book. For the film, see The Society of the Spectacle (film).
The Society of the Spectacle
Cover of the first edition
Author
Guy Debord
Original title
La société du spectacle
Translator
Donald Nicholson-Smith
Country
France
Language
French
Subject
Spectacle
Published
1967 (Buchet-Chastel, in French)
1970 (Black & Red, in English)
Media type
Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages
154 (1994 Zone Books edition)
ISBN
0-942299-79-5 (1994 Zone Books edition)
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The Society of the Spectacle (French: La société du spectacle) is a 1967 work of philosophy and Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord where he develops and presents the concept of the Spectacle. The book is considered a seminal text for the Situationist movement. Debord published a follow-up book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle in 1988.[1]
^Debord (1988) Comments on the Society of the Spectacle.
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