Critique of Everyday Life: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday (Critique of Everyday Life Verso): 2 - Brossura

Lefebvre, Henri

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ISBN 10: 1844671925 ISBN 13: 9781844671922

Casa editrice: Verso, 2008

Riassunto

Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. The first volume presented an introduction to the concept of everyday life. Written twenty years later, this second volume attempts to establish the necessary formal instruments for analysis, and outlines a series of theoretical categories within everyday life such as the theory of the semantic field and the theory of moments.

The moment at which the book appeared—1961—was significant both for France and for Lefebvre himself: he was just beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at Strasbourg, and then at Nanterre, and many of the ideas which were influential in the events leading up to 1968 are to be found in this critique. In its impetuous, often undisciplined prose, the reader may catch a glimpse of how charismatic a lecturer Lefebvre must have been.

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Recensione:

Henri Lefebvre was the last great classical philosopher. His career was distinguished by this feature rare enough even in the most productive creative lives namely, to have had a new idea every decade. The concept of everyday life was one of [his] ideas: now that it has been fruitfully disseminated through any number of thought modes, from cultural studies to the new urbanism, it behoves us to return to the source, in this first, prophetic postwar statement. --Fredric Jameson

L'autore:

Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), former resistance fighter and professor of sociology at Strasbourg and Nanterre, was a member of the French Communist Party from 1928 until his expulsion in 1957. He was the author of sixty books on philosophy, sociology, politics, architecture and urbanism.

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• Editore: Verso
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844671925
• ISBN 13: 9781844671922
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416