Lefebvre, Love and Struggle

Spatial Dialectics

By: Rob Shields

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Hardcover | 10 December 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Henri Lefebvre was one of the most significant European thinkers of the twentieth century. At the centre of intellectual life in Paris for almost 80 years, he was involved with Andre Breton's Surrealism as a student, with the young Sartre and the formalization of Existentialism, and in later years with Guy Debord's 'Situationists' and the activists of the mid 1970s in Paris. Lefebvre carried ideas from generation to generation of the political avant garde and yet he remains largely an enigma. Lefebvre, Love and Struggle provides the only comprehensive guide to Lefebvre's work. Rob Shields draws on the full range of Lefebvre's writings including many previously untranslated and unpublished works and correspondence. Topics covered include Lefebvre's early relationship with Marxism, his critique of the rise of fascism, as well as his Critique of Everyday Life and the significant work on urban space for which he is best known today.

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""Shields offers critical reflections on Lefebvre's work, situated within its historical context, with interesting details about the man's intellectual, political, and personal trajectories. . . The book offers a very interesting discussion of the problems of translation between languages, cultures, and historical contexts in order to explain the particularities of Lefebvre's thinking in relation to Anglophone works. . . I recommend this book for those who are looking for an analysis of Lefebvre's wide-ranging work, its historical context, and its legacy, synthesised in a sometimes repetitive manner, but nevertheless very compelling and sparkled with parallels with contemporary intellectual work." --Julie-Anne Boudreau, Dept. of Urban Planning, Univ. of California-LA for "The Canadian Journal of Sociology Online." "Of all the great twentieth century philosophers, Henri Lefebvre is the least well known to the English-reading public and the immensity and variety of his work does not make the job of introducing him any easier. Rob Shields' comprehensive book, which deals with the major works and all the stages of Lefebvre's career, should now deny us any further excuses on this score. Lefebvre's emphasis on space and the urban, as well as the everyday, has many as yet unexploited resources to offer contemporary thought and Shields' brilliant exegeses now make those available to us, virtually for the first time in English." -Professor Frederic Jameson

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