Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volumes I & II

Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volumes I & II

Volume I:

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Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
The two volumes of Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life provided here are 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.