Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1: Introduction - Brossura

Lefebvre, Henri

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ISBN 10: 1844671917 ISBN 13: 9781844671915

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2008

Riassunto

Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.

Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life isperhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentiethcentury's greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-warconsumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration forthe 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be thefounding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as amajor influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography,sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work ofenormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point andguide the "trivial" details of quotidian experience: an experiencecolonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one whichremains the only source of resistance and change.

This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.

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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 Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844671917
• ISBN 13: 9781844671915
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312