Skrevet af LEFEBVRE
Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life
is 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.
This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.
