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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 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.

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The last great classical philosopher. -- Fredric Jameson
One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. -- David Harvey
A savage critique of consumerist society. * Publishers Weekly *

Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 2: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday

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      Publisher Verso Books
      Published 17 February 2008
      ISBN-13 9781844671922
      978-1844671922
      ISBN-10 1844671925
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      Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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.

      Trade Review
      The last great classical philosopher. -- Fredric Jameson
      One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century. -- David Harvey
      A savage critique of consumerist society. * Publishers Weekly *

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