Product Description: Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thoughtIn Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world becoming philosophical and philosophy becoming worldly” as a leitmotif, examining the relation between Hegelian–Marxist supersession and Nietzschean overcoming...read more

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, untilmely today only in its intransigence and optimism. Volume One is a groundbreaking analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life under capitalism.

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.

Product 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...read more

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. The first volume presented an introduction to the concept of everyday life. Written twenty years later, this second volume attempts to establish the necessary formal instruments for analysis, and outlines a series of theoretical categories within everyday life such as the theory of the semantic field and the theory of moments.The moment at which the book appeared—1961—was significant both for France and for Lefebvre himself: he was just beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at Strasbourg, and then at Nanterre, and many of the ideas which were influential in the events leading up to 1968 are to be found in this critique. In its impetuous, often undisciplined prose, the reader may catch a glimpse of how charismatic a lecturer Lefebvre must have been.

Product Description: Perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers.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...read more

Product Description: El concepto de representación es uno de los más corrientes y variables, tanto en el campo de la filosofía y de la estética como en el del lenguaje común. Sin embargo, el autor se pregunta: ¿se trata en verdad y realidad de un concepto?, o dicho de otro modo, ¿hasta dónde es posible formular una teoría de la representación? En pos de una respuesta, este ensayo verifica un análisis sostenido de la trama en que se inscribe este concepto...read more

Product Description: El autor hace surgir a Nietzsche del mundo político y social de la Alemania occidental de la revolución de 1848. Danilo Cruz Vélez, en el prólogo de este libro, considera que Nietzsche era fundamentalmente un metafísico y que es necesario verlo dentro del marco total a que pertenece para entender su vida...read more

When Lefebvre's book first appeared in the 1960s it was considered a manifesto for a social movement that focused on the quality of life experi­enced by the individual—by the com­mon man and woman. His emphasis on the quality of life will have even more appeal to those currently living with the problems of inflation, unem­ployment, and dwindling natural re­sources. Basing his discussions on everyday life in France, Lefebvre shows the de­gree to which our lived-in world and our sense of it are shaped by decisions about which we know little and in which we do not participate. He evaluates the achievements and shortcomings of applying variousphilosophical perspectives such as Marxism and Structuralism to daily life, studies the impact of con­sumerism on society, and looks at ef­fects on society of linguistic phenom­ena and various kinds of terrorism communicated through mass media. In his new introduction to this edi­tion, Philip Wander evaluates Lefebvre's ideas by relating many of them to current contexts. He discusses the political and economic aspects of daily life in the 1980s, the work envi­ronment, communications, and the world of science and technology.

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Product Description: Le nationalisme contre les nations veut clarifier la confusion qui traverse l'epoque sur la question nationale. En refaisant la genealogie des idees de nation, de nationalisme, d'internationalisme, de patriotisme, Henri Lefebvre nous invite a faire emerger dialectiquement le concept de nation en tenant compte de sa force instituante qu'est le patriotisme (affirmation d'une identite, d'une difference), mais en refusant ses formes instituees - le nationalisme - qui entrainent l'exclusion des " autres ...read more