Henri Lefebvre's Critical Theory of Space. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francesco Biagi.
• Authors: Biagi, Francesco
• Contents: Chapter 1 – Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Reflection beyond the Academic Disciplines Introduction Henri Lefebvre between Philosophy and Sociology: a Thinker who Defies CategorizationYoung Lefebvre. Philosophy as Shared Critical Thought Marx against Marxism: Henri Lefebvre's Critical Political PhilosophyThe Specter of Lefebvre's Literary Production on the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord: a Controversial Intellectual FriendshipHenri 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 SociologyThe Urban Critical Theory: Reading Henri Lefebvre between the Twentieth and the Twentieth-First CenturyConclusion Chapter 2 – The Lefebvrian Lexicon Introduction 2.1 Rural Rural Sociology's First StudiesThe 'Progressive-Regressive Method'The Theory of Ground Rent as an Application of the Progressive-Regressive MethodConclusion 2.2 Urban IntroductionIn Praise of the Fringe: Henri Lefebvre and Our (Mis)Understanding of the SuburbsWhat 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 IntroductionThe Political Theory of Space ProjectThe 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 ThoughtConclusion Chapter 4 – Understanding the Present with Henri Lefebvre IntroductionThe 'Right to the City': a Lefebvrian Genealogy Power's 'Passive Revolution': the 'Right to the City' as Governance from AboveWhat is the 'Right to the City' Now? Taking back Space and Time Conclusion Chapter 5 – Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (235 pages)
• Subjects: Political science; Political theory; Critical theory; Political sociology; Political philosophy; Philosophy -- Movements -- Critical Theory; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Philosophy -- Political; History of Western philosophy; Sociology; Social & political philosophy; Political Science -- History & Theory; Political science & theory
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030523671
• Related ISBNs: 9783030523664
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