Critique of everyday life / Henri Lefebvre ; translated by John Moore ; with a preface by Michel Trebitsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991.

Contributor:

Trebitsch, Michel.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Critique de la vie quotidienne. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Life.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

volumes ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, [2002-]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

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. The first volume presented an introduction to the concept of everyday life as a field for analytical investigation and critique. Written twenty years later, this second volume attempts to establish the necessary formal instruments for analysis, and outlines a series of theoretical categories within everyday life such as the theory of the semantic field and the theory of moments. The moment at which the book appeared -- 1961 -- was significant both for France and for Lefebvre himself: he was just beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at Strasbourg and then at Nanterre, and many of the ideas which were to be so influential in the developments leading up to 1968 are to be found in this critique. In its impetuous, often undisciplined prose, the reader may catch a glimpse of how charismatic a lecturer Lefebvre must have been.

Contents:

v. 1. Introduction

v. 2. Foundations for a sociology of the everyday

v. 3. From modernity to modernism (towards a metaphilosophy of daily life)

Notes:

Translation of the 2nd ed. of: Critique de la vie quotidienne.

"This edition first published by Verso 2002."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has v. 1 and 3 wanting.

ISBN:

0860913406

1859846505

OCLC:

24214671