Space, Difference, Everyday Life Reading Henri Lefebvre [Paperback]

In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvres reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. Lefebvres massive body of work has generated two main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in tone. Space, Difference, and Everyday Lifemerges these two schools of thought into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements

1 On the Production of Henri Lefebvre

Stefan Kipfer, Kanishka Goonewardena, Christian Schmid and Richard Milgrom

Part I: Dialectics of Space and Time

2 Towards a Three-Dimensional Dialectic: The Theory of the Production of Space

Christian Schmid

3 Space and Representation: Reading the Urban Revolution

Walter Prigge

4 Space as Concrete Abstraction: Hegel, Marx, and Modern Urbanism in Henri Lefebvre

Lukasz Stanek

5 Mondialisation before Globalization: Lefebvre and Axelos

Stuart Elden

6 Lefebvre without Heidegger: Left Heideggerianism as contradictio in adiecto

Geoffrey Waite

Part II: Rhythms of Urbanization and Everyday Life

7 Marxism and Everyday Life: On Lefebvre, Debord and Some Others

Kanishka Goonewardena

8 In Search of the Possible: Henri Lefebvre and Everyday Life

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