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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henri Lefebvre |
ISBN: | 9781781683194 1781683190 9781781686508 1781686505 |
OCLC Number: | 869310506 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Volume I: Introduction -- Volume II: Foundations for a sociology of the everyday -- Volume III: From modernity to modernism (Towards a metaphilosophy of daily life). |
Responsibility: | Henri Lefebvre. |
Abstract:
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.
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