Space, difference, everyday life : reading Henri Lefebvre / edited by Kanishka Goonewardena ... [et al.].

By:

Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991

Contributor(s):

Goonewardena, Kanishka

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2008.Description: xiv, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780415954600 (pbk.)
0415954606 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.7601 SPA 23 000961

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Table of contents

Contents:

1. On the production of Henri Lefebvre / Stefan Kipfer, Kanishka Goonewardena, Christian Schmid and Richard Milgrom Pt. I. Dialectics of Space and Time 2. Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space: towards a three-dimensional dialectic / Christian Schmid 3. Reading The Urban Revolution: space and representation / 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" qua contradictio in adiecto / Geoffrey Waite Pt. II. Rhythms of Urbanization and Everyday Life 7. Marxism and everyday life: on Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and some others / Kanishka Goonewardena 8. Henri Lefebvre and urban everyday life: in search of the possible / Klaus Ronneberger 9. Rhythms, streets, cities / Kurt Meyer 10. Lessons in Surrealism: relationality, event, encounter / Sara Nadal-Melsio 11. Lefebvre and Debord: a Faustian fusion / Andy Merrifield Pt. III. Difference, Hegemony, and the Right to the City 12. How Lefebvre urbanized Gramsci: hegemony, everyday life, and difference / Stefan Kipfer 13. Totality, hegemony, difference: Henri Lefebvre and Raymond Williams / Andrew Shmuely 14. Henri Lefebvre's critique of state productivism / Neil Brenner 15. Right to the city: politics of citizenship / Liette Gilbert and Mustafa Dikec 16. Lucien Kroll: design, difference, everyday life / Richard Milgrom Pt. IV. Conclusion 17. Globalizing Lefebvre? / Stefan Kipfer, Christian Schmid, Kanishka Goonewardena and Richard Milgrom.

Summary: "Space, Difference, Everyday Life presents a state-of-the-art collection of essays engaging Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre, explicating this inimitable French Marxist's longstanding commitment to "urbanize revolutionary theory and revolutionize urban theory." Belatedly, Lefebvre's reputation has grown exponentially as a leading figure in European philosophy and social theory; and his pioneering works on space, everyday life, and global urbanization have revitalized urban theory, geography, planning, architecture, and cultural studies. In this context, this volume breaks new ground in spatial disciplines as well as critical theory: first, by bridging "spatial" Lefebvre discussions with broader reflections on his contributions to radical thought; second, by comparing influential Anglo-American explorations on Lefebvre's work with those of the Continental - especially French and German - traditions; and, third, by proposing a new "third wave" of Lefebvre scholarship, going beyond both urban "political-economic" critiques and "postmodern-geographical" appropriations, to propose new trajectories for reading Lefebvre today. A highly nuanced, heterodox and provocative Lefebvre emerges in these pages - creatively involved in postwar intellectual debates, while offering us various strategies to intervene usefully in contemporary questions concerning space, time, difference, urbanization, state, colonization, and radical polities."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. On the production of Henri Lefebvre / Stefan Kipfer, Kanishka Goonewardena, Christian Schmid and Richard Milgrom
Pt. I. Dialectics of Space and Time
2. Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space: towards a three-dimensional dialectic / Christian Schmid
3. Reading The Urban Revolution: space and representation / 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" qua contradictio in adiecto / Geoffrey Waite
Pt. II. Rhythms of Urbanization and Everyday Life
7. Marxism and everyday life: on Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and some others / Kanishka Goonewardena
8. Henri Lefebvre and urban everyday life: in search of the possible / Klaus Ronneberger
9. Rhythms, streets, cities / Kurt Meyer
10. Lessons in Surrealism: relationality, event, encounter / Sara Nadal-Melsio
11. Lefebvre and Debord: a Faustian fusion / Andy Merrifield
Pt. III. Difference, Hegemony, and the Right to the City
12. How Lefebvre urbanized Gramsci: hegemony, everyday life, and difference / Stefan Kipfer
13. Totality, hegemony, difference: Henri Lefebvre and Raymond Williams / Andrew Shmuely
14. Henri Lefebvre's critique of state productivism / Neil Brenner
15. Right to the city: politics of citizenship / Liette Gilbert and Mustafa Dikec
16. Lucien Kroll: design, difference, everyday life / Richard Milgrom
Pt. IV. Conclusion
17. Globalizing Lefebvre? / Stefan Kipfer, Christian Schmid, Kanishka Goonewardena and Richard Milgrom.

"Space, Difference, Everyday Life presents a state-of-the-art collection of essays engaging Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre, explicating this inimitable French Marxist's longstanding commitment to "urbanize revolutionary theory and revolutionize urban theory." Belatedly, Lefebvre's reputation has grown exponentially as a leading figure in European philosophy and social theory; and his pioneering works on space, everyday life, and global urbanization have revitalized urban theory, geography, planning, architecture, and cultural studies. In this context, this volume breaks new ground in spatial disciplines as well as critical theory: first, by bridging "spatial" Lefebvre discussions with broader reflections on his contributions to radical thought; second, by comparing influential Anglo-American explorations on Lefebvre's work with those of the Continental - especially French and German - traditions; and, third, by proposing a new "third wave" of Lefebvre scholarship, going beyond both urban "political-economic" critiques and "postmodern-geographical" appropriations, to propose new trajectories for reading Lefebvre today. A highly nuanced, heterodox and provocative Lefebvre emerges in these pages - creatively involved in postwar intellectual debates, while offering us various strategies to intervene usefully in contemporary questions concerning space, time, difference, urbanization, state, colonization, and radical polities."--BOOK JACKET.

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