Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1 - Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Reflection beyond the Academic Disciplines
- Introduction
- Henri Lefebvre between Philosophy and Sociology: a Thinker who Defies Categorization
- Young Lefebvre. Philosophy as Shared Critical Thought
- Marx against Marxism: Henri Lefebvre's Critical Political Philosophy
- The Specter of Lefebvre's Literary Production on the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
- Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord: a Controversial Intellectual Friendship
- Henri 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 Sociology
- The Urban Critical Theory: Reading Henri Lefebvre between the Twentieth and the Twentieth-First Century
- Conclusion
Chapter 2 - The Lefebvrian Lexicon
2.1 Rural
- Rural Sociology's First Studies
- The "Progressive-Regressive Method"
- The Theory of Ground Rent as an Application of the Progressive-Regressive Method
- Conclusion
2.2 Urban
- Introduction
- In Praise of the Fringe: Henri Lefebvre and Our (Mis)Understanding of the Suburbs
- What 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
- Introduction
- The Political Theory of Space Project
- The 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 Thought
- Conclusion
Chapter 4 - Understanding the Present with Henri Lefebvre
- Introduction
- The "Right to the City" a Lefebvrian Genealogy
- Power's "Passive Revolution" the "Right to the City" as Governance from Above
- What is the "Right to the City" Now? Taking back Space and Time
- Conclusion
Chapter 5 - Conclusion