Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1: Introduction - Softcover

Lefebvre, Henri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844671917 ISBN 13: 9781844671915

Publisher: Verso Books, 2008

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Henri Lefebvre was the last great classical philosopher. His career was distinguished by this feature rare enough even in the most productive creative lives namely, to have had a new idea every decade. The concept of everyday life was one of [his] ideas: now that it has been fruitfully disseminated through any number of thought modes, from cultural studies to the new urbanism, it behoves us to return to the source, in this first, prophetic postwar statement. --Fredric Jameson

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This book focuses on the various phenomena of daily life and considers them in new ways. "The Critique of Everyday Life" is 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844671917
• ISBN 13: 9781844671915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312