In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. Lefebvre’s massive body of work has generated two main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in tone. Space, Difference, and Everyday Life merges these two schools of thought into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.
Author(s): Goonewardena K. et al.
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 344
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
1 ON THE PRODUCTION OF HENRI LEFEBVRE......Page 16
PART I: DIALECTICS OF SPACE AND TIME......Page 40
2 HENRI LEFEBVRE’S THEORY OF THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE: TOWARDS A THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIALECTIC......Page 42
3 READING THE URBAN REVOLUTION: SPACE AND REPRESENTATION......Page 61
4 SPACE AS CONCRETE ABSTRACTION: HEGEL, MARX, AND MODERN URBANISM IN HENRI LEFEBVRE......Page 77
5 MONDIALISATION BEFORE GLOBALIZATION: LEFEBVRE AND AXELOS......Page 95
6 LEFEBVRE WITHOUT HEIDEGGER: "LEFT-HEIDEGGERIANISM" QUA CONTRADICTIO IN ADIECTO......Page 109
PART II: RHYTHMS OF URBANIZATION AND EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 130
7 MARXISM AND EVERYDAY LIFE: ON HENRI LEFEBVRE, GUY DEBORD, AND SOME OTHERS......Page 132
8 HENRI LEFEBVRE AND URBAN EVERYDAY LIFE: IN SEARCH OF THE POSSIBLE......Page 149
9 RHYTHMS, STREETS, CITIES......Page 162
10 LESSONS IN SURREALISM: RELATIONALITY, EVENT, ENCOUTER......Page 176
11 LEFEBVRE AND DEBORD: A FAUSTIAN FUSION......Page 191
PART III: DIFFERENCE, HEGEMONY, AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY......Page 206
12 HOW LEFEBVRE URBANIZED GRAMSCI: HEGEMONY, EVERYDAY LIFE, AND DIFFERENCE......Page 208
13 TOTALITY, HEGEMONY, DIFFERENCE: HENRI LEFEBVRE AND RAYMOND WILLIAMS......Page 227
14 HENRI LEFEBVRE’S CRITIQUE OF STATE PRODUCTIVISM......Page 246
15 RIGHT TO THE CITY: POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP......Page 265
16 LUCIEN KROLL: DESIGN, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 279
PART IV: CONCLUSION......Page 298
17 GLOBALIZING LEFEBVRE?......Page 300
INDEX......Page 321
