Critique of Everyday Life, Volume II: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday
by Henri Lefebvre
Critique of Everyday Life (volume 2)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Henri Lefebvre (1901-91), 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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- Critique of Everyday Life, Volume II: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday
- Original title
- Critique de la vie quotidienne, tome 2: Fondements d'une sociologie de la quotidienneté
- Original publication date
- 1961
- Disambiguation notice
- This is the second of three volumes in Lefebvre's "Critique of Everyday Life." Please DO NOT combine with other individual volumes, the 2008 set, or the 2014 omnibus.
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