Description
Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
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. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the "trivial" details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change.
This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.
A groundbreaking analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life under capitalism
About the Author
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.
Reviews
A savage critique of consumerist society. * Publishers Weekly *
One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. -- David Harvey
The last great classical philosopher. -- Fredric Jameson
Book Information
ISBN 9781844671915
Author Henri Lefebvre
Format Paperback
Page Count 283
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 488g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 25mm
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. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the "trivial" details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change.
This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.
A groundbreaking analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life under capitalism
About the Author
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.
Reviews
A savage critique of consumerist society. * Publishers Weekly *
One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. -- David Harvey
The last great classical philosopher. -- Fredric Jameson
Book Information
ISBN 9781844671915
Author Henri Lefebvre
Format Paperback
Page Count 283
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 488g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 25mm
