The last great classical philosopher.

One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century.

A savage critique of consumerist society.

Publishers Weekly

The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now available for the first time in one complete volume. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, Critique was an inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France. It is a founding text of cultural studies and a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. Lefebvre takes as his starting point and guide the "trivial" details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet remaining 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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Lefebvre's classic analysis of daily life under capitalism in one complete volume.
Lefebvre's classic analysis of daily life under capitalism in one complete volume

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781683170
Publisert
2014-05-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
1254 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
51 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
944

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

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.