Critique Everyday Life V1 Pa Spec

by Lefebvre,Henri

• ISBN13: 9781844671915
• ISBN10: 1844671917
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

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 now 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), former resistance fighter and professor of sociology at Strasbourg and Nanterre

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Foreword to the Second Edition	p. 1
In Retrospect
What Has Changed in the Last Ten Years?
On Chaplin, Bertolt Brecht and Some Others
Work and Leisure in Everyday Life
Some Overviews on the 'Modern World'
Once Again, the Theory of Alienation ...
Alienated Labour
Philosophy and the Critique of Everyday Life
Plans and Programme for the Future
Introduction	p. 101
Brief Notes on some Well-Trodden Ground	p. 103
The Knowledge of Everyday Life	p. 130
Marxism as Critical Knowledge of Everyday Life	p. 138
The Development of Marxist Thought	p. 176
Notes Written One Sunday in the French Countryside	p. 201
What Is Possible	p. 228
Notes	p. 253
Index	p. 275
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