Henri Lefebvre

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 44-64

  Goonewardena, Kanishka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic society of controlled consumption colonization of everyday life by capital and state, concept announcing in Everyday Life in the Modern World; For and against the PCF Lefebvre's relationship to the Party, predictably fraught; Henri Lefebvre, prolific writer in tradition of Western Marxism; Lefebvre, occupying a small space in landscape of radical thought; Open Marxism Lefebvre identifying key concepts of Marx; Reckoning of Lefebvre's rebirth return to conjuncture of his birth, and two European World Wars; Space and dialectics and Production of Space, Lefebvre's cited work, not the best understood; Total man, "Praxis" for Lefebvre essence of dialectic, Dialectical Materialism and concept of praxis; True, writings on "production of space" and "cities" original aspects of Lefebvre's work; Uses of alienation whether Lefebvre, was a peculiar kind of Marxist

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EID: 84885787456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444396621.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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