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Henri Lefebvre - Space, Philosophy and the Political.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991.
- Lefebvre, Henri.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Space.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- A fresh examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging socio-political dimensions of space.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Reclaiming Henri Lefebvre's critical legacy
- The adventures of a dialectician
- Multiple contemporary readings of Lefebvre
- Contributions
- References
- PART 1 : UPDATING AND INVENTING CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS
- 1 Some aspects of Lefebvre's contribution to the unde
- A questionable, albeit necessary, concept
- From the 'critique of ideology' to the 'critique of everyday life'
- Everyday life as a matrix of mystification
- Everyday life: Ideas-in-practice and the novel form of ideologies
- The 'establishment of everydayness' and the dialectics of ideology
- 2 Commodity fetishism in Lefebvre's thought or the political character (?) of a non-political concept
- Introduction
- Act I: A reading of commodity fetishism
- Act II: Lefebvre's aspect of fetishism
- Act III: a Marxian aspect of de-fetishization
- 3 Rhythmanalysis: Lefebvre's secret garden
- Closing the circle on the critique of everyday life
- The genealogy of rhythmanalysis: Duration, social time, moments and le soleil crucifi é
- The body, time and space
- Trawling on É l é ments de rythmanalyse
- The rhythmanalyst appeals to all his senses
- Rhythmanalysis today
- 4 Henri Lefebvre: A heterodox reader of Marx - polis , politics and democracy
- Lefebvre's heterodox Marxism
- The question of democracy
- The issue of politics
- Polis
- Conclusion
- PART 2: SPACE AS SOCIAL PRAXIS
- 5 Exploded politics of space: Ambiguous households and bodies
- Colonization, households and the everyday
- Ambiguousness, archaism, obduracy
- Housewife as figure of ambiguity
- Rhythm and futurity, contract and patrimony
- Colonialized
- Race, internal colonization and the domestic
- References.
- 6 Encounters of gender and (urban) space, drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre
- Everyday life
- On the body
- 'on ne finit jamais avec Lefebvre' 8
- 7 The possibility of a more egalitarian and accessible city? Henri Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville
- The origins of Le Droit à la Ville : a vision of anticipation in a specific urban context
- Reclaiming the right to the city in a contemporary context
- The globalized version: the right to the city
- The return of inhabitance
- 8 On the primary sources of Henri Lefebvre's theory of the 'Production of Space'
- On the genealogy of the Lefebvrian theory of moments
- About the moments
- Presentification and production of moments
- On the genealogy of Lefebvrian theory of the triad of moments and formants
- Overtures: apropos the triad of moments of the production of space and of the social space
- PART 3: POLITICAL STRUGGLES, SOCIAL PRACTICES AND VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
- 9 Henri Lefebvre and the national question(s): Dilemmas and actualities
- The problems posed
- Fascism as the last stage of mystification: revolutionism, nationalism, racism
- Anti-fascism: ideological work and concrete internationalism
- Conclusion: missing national questions
- 10 Reclaiming the Lefebvrean right to the city through urban commoning
- The potentiality of the urban
- Praxis, poiesis and creativity
- Everyday life and the transformative power of rhythmicality
- Common space and self-management
- 11 Crossing urban studies with utopian thought: A Lefebvrian point of view
- The criticism of the functionalist urbanism and the journal Utopie
- Experimental utopia: projecting a new conception of urbanism
- Right to the city and urban utopia.
- The Paris Commune as a realized utopian case study of the right to the city
- 12 Henri Lefebvre and Cornelius Castoriadis's autogestion: Reinventing the polis as project
- Introduction: around the concept of autogestion
- Henri Lefebvre, the Centre d' é tudes sociologiques and Marxist thought
- Henri Lefebvre's impact on architecture and urbanism
- Cornelius Castoriadis and the reinvention of the polis
- Index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Flytzanis, Yannis Henri Lefebvre - Space, Philosophy and the Political
- ISBN:
- 9781350537798
- OCLC:
- 1520505665
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