Metaphilosophy - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1784782734 ISBN 13: 9781784782733

Publisher: Verso Books, 2016

In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marxs revolutionary thought for philosophy. Metaphilosophy is conceived as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a programme of radical worldwide change. The book demonstrates Lefebvres debt to Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, but it also brings a number of other figures into the conversation including Sartre, Heidegger and Axelos. Metaphilosophy stands as key text in Lefebvres wide-ranging oeuvre, the foundation for his work on everyday life, the city and the production of space. It is also a key moment in contemporary thinking about philosophys relation to the world.

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'One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century.' --David Harvey

'The last great classical philosopher.' --Fredric Jameson

'It is not excessive to claim that he is the ecophilosopher of the 21st century, for he made the connection between the massive despoiling of the global ecosystems, the new shape of social time and social space and the struggle for the transformation of everyday life which, he claims, is the key to the project of changing life and repairing our collective relationship to nature.' --Stanley Aronowitz

About the Author:

Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), former resistance fighter and professor of sociology at Strasbourg and Nanterre, was a member of the French Communist Party from 1928 until his expulsion in 1957. He was the author of sixty books on philosophy, sociology, politics, architecture and urbanism.

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