General Information

Uniform Title

Critique de la vie quotidienne.

Author/Creator

Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991.

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Verso, 1991-2005.

Physical Description

3 volumes ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

'...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 now 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 intransigense and optimism"--publisher

Subjects

Subject

Life.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Sociology > Sociology.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Henri Lefebvre ; translated by John Moore [and vol. 3 by Gregory Elliott] ; with a preface by Michel Trebitsch.

Note

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

Content

v. 1. Introduction -- v. 2. Foundations for a sociology of the everyday -- v. 3. From modernity to modernism (towards a metaphilosophy of daily life).

ISBN

0860913406

9781844671915

9781844671922

9781844671939

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	194 LEF vol. 1-3		Reference	Donation of Márk László-Herbert.

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