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Henri Lefebvre - Space, Philosophy and the Political.

Bloomsbury Collections: Politics & International Relations 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Flytzanis, Yannis, editor.
Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
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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