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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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A savage critique of consumerist society. --Publisher's Weekly
One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. --David Harvey
The last great classical philosopher --Frederic Jameson
One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. --David Harvey
The last great classical philosopher --Frederic Jameson
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- PublisherVerso Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1781683182
- ISBN 13 9781781683187
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages848
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