
Introduction to Modernity
Twelve Preludes, September 1959-May 1961
Henri Lefebvre(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 16. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-84467-783-2 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. A classic analysis of the modern world using Marxist dialectic, it is a book which supersedes the conventional divisions between academic disciplines. With dazzling skill, Lefebvre moves from philosophy to sociology, from literature to history, to present a profound analysis of the social, political and cultural forces at work in France and the world in the aftermath of Stalin's death-an analysis in which the contours of our own "postmodernity" appear with startling clarity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
452 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-783-2 (9781844677832)
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Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), former resistance fighter and Professor of Sociology at Strasbourg and Nanterre, was a member of the French Communist Party from 1928 until his expulsion in 1957. He was the author of sixty books on philosophy, sociology, politics, architecture and urbanism.