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Critique of everyday life / Henri Lefebvre ; translated by John Moore and Gregory Elliott ; introduced by Michel Trebitsch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2008-Edition: Special edDescription: 3 vol. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781844671946 (pbk.)
  • 1844671941 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 LEF
Incomplete contents:
Vol. 1. Introduction ---- Vol. 2. Foundations for a sociology of the everyday ---- Vol. 3. From modernity to modernism.
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 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. -- Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 194 LEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) vol. 1 1 Available 39002100452474
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 194 LEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) vol. 2 0 Available 39002100452466
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 194 LEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) vol. 3 0 Available 39002100452581

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The three volumes of the radical sociologist's magnum opus—in a boxed set: a monumental exploration of contemporary society, by one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals. The Critique of Everyday Lifeis perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The trilogy which provided the philosophy behind the 1968 student revolution in France, it is considered to be the founding text of what we now know as cultural studies. Whether discussing sport, household gadgets, the countryside, surrealism, Charlie Chaplin or religion, Lefebvre always concentrates on the minutiae of lived experience in work and leisure, daydreams, and festivities. Denounced by both the right and left when it was first published in France in 1947, today this text is recognized as a path-breaking, radical, and hugely influential book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vol. 1. Introduction ---- Vol. 2. Foundations for a sociology of the everyday ---- Vol. 3. From modernity to modernism.

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. -- Back cover.

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