Henri Lefebvre's critical theory of space

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    • Biagi, Francesco

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Henri Lefebvre's critical theory of space

Francesco Biagi

(Marx, Engels, and Marxisms / Terrell Carver and Marcello Musto, series editors)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

  • pbk.

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Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space offers a rigorous analysis and revival of Lefebvre's works and the context in which he produced them. Biagi traces the historical-critical time-frame of Lefebvre's intellectual investigations, bringing to light a theoretical constellation in which historical methods intersect with philosophical and sociological issues: from Marxist political philosophy to the birth of urban sociology; from rural studies to urban and everyday life studies in the context of capitalism. Examining Lefebvre's extended investigations into the urban sphere as well as highlighting his goal of developing a "general political theory of space" and of innovating Marxist thought, and clarifying the various (more or less accurate) meanings attributed to Lefebvre's concept of the "right to the city" (analysed in the context of the French and international sociological and philosophical-political debate), Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space ultimately brings the contours of Lefebvre's innovative perspective-itself developed at the end of the "short twentieth century"-back into view in all its richness and complexity.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Reflection beyond the Academic Disciplines Introduction Henri Lefebvre between Philosophy and Sociology: a Thinker who Defies Categorization Young Lefebvre. Philosophy as Shared Critical Thought Marx against Marxism: Henri Lefebvre's Critical Political Philosophy The Specter of Lefebvre's Literary Production on the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord: a Controversial Intellectual Friendship Henri Lefebvre and Jean Paul Sartre: from the Polemic on the Theoretical Foundations of Existentialism to Antistalinist Action within the French Communist Party Henri Lefebvre and Louis Althusser: against Structuralism Henri Lefebvre and the Birth of French Urban Sociology The Urban Critical Theory: Reading Henri Lefebvre between the Twentieth and the Twentieth-First Century Conclusion Chapter 2 - The Lefebvrian Lexicon Introduction 2.1 Rural Rural Sociology's First Studies The "Progressive-Regressive Method" The Theory of Ground Rent as an Application of the Progressive-Regressive Method Conclusion 2.2 Urban Introduction In Praise of the Fringe: Henri Lefebvre and Our (Mis)Understanding of the Suburbs What is (the New) Urban Society? From the City as a Form to Urbanisation as a Process The Asymmetrical Relation between the Urban and the Rural Habitat, Dwelling and the Housing Question in Lefebvre's Thought A Critique of Le Corbusier's Functionalist Urbanism Conclusion Chapter 3 - The Philosophy and Sociology of Space Introduction The Political Theory of Space Project The Production of Space Historical Phenomenology of Space The Paris Commune and the Destiny of the City: Insurgence for Space On the Concept of "Urban Utopia" "Changer la vie": The Critique of Everyday Life and the Lefebvrian Roots of Situationist Thought Conclusion Chapter 4 - Understanding the Present with Henri Lefebvre Introduction The "Right to the City": a Lefebvrian Genealogy Power's "Passive Revolution": the "Right to the City" as Governance from Above What is the "Right to the City" Now? Taking back Space and Time Conclusion Chapter 5 - Conclusion

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