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The Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth centurys greatest philosophers. A historian and sociologist, Lefebvre developed his ideas over seven decades through intellectual confrontation with figures as diverse as Bergson, Breton, Sartre, Debord and Althusser. Written at the birth of postwar consumerism, though only now translated into English, the Critique is a book of enormous range and subtlety. Lefebvre takes as his starting point and guide the trivial details of quotidian an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet which remains the only source of resistance and change. Whether he is exploring the commercialization of sex or the disappearance of rural festivities, analyzing Hegel or Charlie Chaplin, Lefebvre always returns to the ubiquity of alienation, the necessity of revolt. This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism. This third volume of the Critique of Everyday Life completes Lefebvres monumental project. It seeks to shed light on changes inscribed within everyday life, and at the same time to reveal certain virtualities of the everyday, taki
- Author
- Henri Lefebvre
- Publisher
- London ; New York: Verso
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780860915874
- Subjects
- Economics, Philosophy, History