Introduction to Modernity

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.

Author: Henri Lefebvre
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/16/2012
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 414
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781844677832