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

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

Volume I:

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Volume II

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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.

Edward W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory

Edward W. Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory

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“One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written.”—David Harvey
Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory’s “spatial turn.” From the suppression of space in modern social science and the disciplinary aloofness of geography to the spatial returns of Foucault and Lefebvre and the construction of Marxist geographies alert to urbanization and global development, renowned geographer Edward W. Soja details the trajectory of this turn and lays out its key debates. An expanded critique of historicism and a refined grasp of materialist dialectics bolster Soja’s attempt to introduce geography to postmodernity, animating a series of engagements with Heidegger, Giddens, Castells, and others. Two exploratory essays on the postfordist landscapes of Los Angeles complete the book, offering a glimpse of Soja’s new geography carried into its highest register.