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Lefebvre, love and struggle : spatial dialectics / Rob Shields.

Van Pelt Library B2430.L3874 S35 1999
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shields, Rob, 1961-
Series:
International library of sociology
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991.
Lefebvre, Henri.
Physical Description:
x, 225 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Summary:
"Lefebvre, Love and Struggle" provides the only comprehensive guide to Lefebvre's work. It is an accessible introduction to one of the most significant European thinkers of the twentieth century. Rob Shields draws on the full range of Lefebvre's writings, including many previously untranslated and unpublished works and correspondence. Topics covered include Lefebvre's early relationship with Marxism, his critique of the rise of fascism, as well as his "Critique of Everyday Life" and the significant work on urban space for which he is best known today.
Contents:
1 Lefebvre's significance 1
Lefebvre's status 3
2 Adventure, art and wars 1905-45 8
Le soleil crucifie: The crucified sun 8
Humanistic Marxist 19
Second World War Resistant 26
3 Foundation works: Philosophies, Hegel, Surrealism 29
Philosophies and the avant-garde 30
Hegel, Marx and the Surrealist consciousness 34
Hegel and method 35
4 False authenticity: the roots of Fascism 38
Alienation 39
`Mystification' and false authenticity: the rise of Fascism 44
L'homme total 49
Critique of Fascism 50
5 Moments of presence 53
Neither Surrealism nor Dada 59
Lefebvre and Dada 55
Moments 58
Presence 60
6 The critique of everyday life: Marx and Nietzsche 65
The search for everyday life 65
Dialectic of banality and presence 69
Nietzsche and everydayness 71
Critique of everyday life 74
The spectacle and visuality: metaphor, metonymy and legibility 77
7 Postwar intellectual 81
The dilemma of the Communist intellectuals 81
Autocritiques and Romantics 83
Rebel without a party 86
The Situationists in Strasbourg 89
Politics and revolution: the Situationist legacy 92
Modernity 94
Leisure and everyday life 96
The Situationists' critique of moments 103
May 1968 106
8 Father of the dialectic and critic of Structuralism 109
Hegel's dialectic 111
Dialectical materialism: Marx's and Engels' critique of Hegel 114
Nietzsche and dialectical materialism 116
Spatialising the dialectic 119
Structure and experience 121
Against structural linguistics 122
9 Existential Marxism: Sartre 127
Arguments 1956-62 134
Metaphilosophie: desire and alienation 135
10 The production of space 141
Urban and global spaces of capital 142
The urban 147
Space in the dialectic 150
Translating L'Espace 153
Beyond human geography 157
Product-oeuvre-concrete abstraction 159
Three-part dialectics 160
A history of space 170
Beyond history to a differential space 183.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-216) and index.
ISBN:
0415093694
0415093708
OCLC:
39130968

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