Introduction to Modernity
Twelve Preludes, September 1959-May 1961
Published on 5. May 2020
416 pages
978-1-78960-047-6 (ISBN)
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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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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78960-047-6 (9781789600476)
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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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Translator's Note
- Introduction
- First Prelude: On Irony, Maieutic and History
- Second Prelude: Oedipus
- Third Prelude: The Metamorphoses of the Devil
- Fourth Prelude: On the Theme of the New Life
- Fifth Prelude: The Message of the Crucified Sun
- Sixth Prelude: A Letter
- Seventh Prelude: Notes on the New Town
- Eighth Prelude: A Vision
- Ninth Prelude: Nature and Nature Conquered
- Tenth Prelude: Renewal, Youth, Repetition
- Eleventh Prelude: What is Modernity?
- Twelfth Prelude: Towards a New Romanticism?
- Notes
- Index
