Henri Lefebvre And The Theory Of The Production Of Space

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631181774
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Production of Space written by Henri Lefebvre and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992-04-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Production of Space written by Henri Lefebvre and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christian Schmid
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786637014
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space written by Christian Schmid and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023 This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre's theory of space and of the urban. Henri Lefebvre belongs to the generation of the great French intellectuals and philosophers, together with his contemporaries Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre. His theory has experienced a remarkable revival over the last two decades, and is discussed and applied today in many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, particularly in urban studies, geography, urban sociology, urban anthropology, architecture and planning. Lefebvre, together with David Harvey, is one of the leading and most read theoreticians in these fields. This book explains in an accessible way the theoretical and epistemological context of this work in French philosophy and in the German dialectic (Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche), and reconstructs in detail the historical development of its different elements. It also gives an overview on the receptions of Lefebvre and discusses a wide range of applications of this theory in many research fields, such as urban and regional development, urbanization, urbanity, social space, and everyday life.

Author : Lukasz Stanek
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816666164
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Henri Lefebvre on Space written by Lukasz Stanek and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911534044
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Critical Theory of Communication written by Christian Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School's key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of this book review aspects of the works of Georg LukAcs, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Axel Honneth and Ju rgen Habermas and apply them as elements of a critical theory of communication's foundations. The approach taken starts from Georg LukAcs Ontology of Social Being, draws on the work of the Frankfurt School thinkers, and sets them into dialogue with the Cultural Materialism of Raymond Williams. Critical Theory of Communication offers a vital set of new insights on how communication operates in the age of information, digital media and social media, arguing that we need to transcend the communication theory of Habermas by establishing a dialectical and cultural-materialist critical theory of communication. "

Author : Chris Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134045883
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Henri Lefebvre written by Chris Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre’s writings have been examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no comprehensive consideration of his work within legal studies. Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City provides the first serious analysis of the relevance and importance of this significant thinker for the study of law and state power. Introducing Lefebvre to a legal audience, this book identifies the central themes that run through his work, including his unorthodox, humanist approach to Marxist theory, his sociological and methodological contributions to the study of everyday life and his theory of the production of space. These elements of Lefebvre’s thought are explored through detailed investigations of the relationships between law, legal form and processes of abstraction; the spatial dimensions of neoliberal configurations of state power; the political and aesthetic aspects of the administrative ordering of everyday life; and the ‘right to the city’ as the basis for asserting new forms of spatial citizenship. Chris Butler argues that Lefebvre’s theoretical categories suggest a way for critical legal scholars to conceptualise law and state power as continually shaped by political struggles over the inhabitance of space. This book is a vital resource for students and researchers in law, sociology, geography and politics, and all readers interested in the application of Lefebvre’s social theory to specific legal and political contexts.

Author : Sue Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135092281
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Henri Lefebvre and Education written by Sue Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more than 70 books, few were available in English until The Production of Space was translated in 1991. While this work - often associated with geography - has influenced educational theory’s ‘spatial turn,’ educationalists have yet to consider Lefebvre’s work more broadly. This book engages in an educational reading of the selection of Lefebvre’s work that is available in English translation. After introducing Lefebvre’s life and works, the book experiments with his concepts and methods in a series of five ‘spatial histories’ of educational theories. In addition to The Production of Space, these studies develop themes from Lefebvre’s other translated works: Rhythmanalysis, The Explosion, the three volumes of Critique of Everyday Life and a range of his writings on cities, Marxism, technology and the bureaucratic state. In the course of these inquiries, Lefebvre’s own passionate interest in education is uncovered: his critiques of bureaucratised schooling and universities, the analytic concepts he devised to study educational phenomena, and his educational methods. Throughout the book Middleton demonstrates how Lefebvre’s conceptual and methodological tools can enhance the understanding of the spatiotemporal location of educational philosophy and theory. Bridging disciplinary divides, it will be key reading for researchers and academics studying the philosophy, sociology and history of education, as well as those working in fields beyond education including geography, history, cultural studies and sociology.

Author : Henri Lefebvre
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 081665316X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book State, Space, World written by Henri Lefebvre and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the political aspect of Lefebvre's work available in English for the first time, this book contains essays on philosophy, political theory, state formation, spatial planning, and globalization, as well as provocative reflections on the possibilities and limits of grassroots democracy under advanced capitalism.

Author : Andrew Merrifield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135435030
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Henri Lefebvre written by Andrew Merrifield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century. This accessible and innovative introduction to the work of Lefebvre combines biography and theory in a critical assessment of the dynamics of Lefebvre's character, thought, and times. Exploring key Lefebvrian concepts, Andy Merrifield demonstrates the evolution of Lefebvre's philosophy, while stressing the way his long and adventurous life of ideas and political engagement live on as an enduring and inspiring interrelated whole.

Author : Kanishka Goonewardena
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135918635
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Space, Difference, Everyday Life written by Kanishka Goonewardena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book merges two schools of thought - one that is political economic, and the other more culturally oriented - into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.