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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Henri Lefebvre , Robert Bononno , Henri LefebvrePublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780816698745ISBN 10: 0816698740 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 28 November 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Foreword Stuart Elden Introductory Note Henri Lefebvre Marxist Thought and the City 1. The Situation of the Working Class in England 2. The City and the Division of Labor 3. Critique of Political Economy 4. Engels and Utopia 5. Capital and Land Ownership Conclusion NotesReviewsThis pithy, provocative little book brings Marxist humanism to bear on urban problems as pressing today as they were nearly half-a-century ago. Upsizing cities spell downsizing work, the coming of urban society announces the financialization of space, a crisis of industrial production begets a politics of urban reproduction all with daunting threats as well as immanent possibilities. Dead for twenty-five years, old man Lefebvre lives on as our most visionary twenty-first-century urban thinker. Andy Merrifield, author of <i>Metromarxism</i>, <i>Magical Marxism</i>, and <i>The New Urban Question</i></p> Lefebvre s work remains of enduring importance. Stuart Elden, from the Foreword</p> This pithy, provocative little book brings Marxist humanism to bear on urban problems as pressing today as they were nearly half-a-century ago. Upsizing cities spell downsizing work, the coming of urban society announces the financialization of space, a crisis of industrial production begets a politics of urban reproduction all with daunting threats as well as immanent possibilities. Dead for twenty-five years, old man Lefebvre lives on as our most visionary twenty-first-century urban thinker. Andy Merrifield, author of Metromarxism, Magical Marxism, and The New Urban Question Lefebvre s work remains of enduring importance. Stuart Elden, from the Foreword Author InformationHenri Lefebvre (1901–1991) was a leading French philosopher, sociologist, and urban theorist. Many of his more than sixty books have appeared in English translation, including The Critique of Everyday Life, The Production of Space, and (all Minnesota) Dialectical Materialism; State, Space, World; and The Urban Revolution. Robert Bononno has been a translator from French for more than twenty years. His recent nonfiction translations include Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, by Henri Lefebvre (Minnesota, 2014), Speech Begins after Death, by Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy (Minnesota, 2013), and Language, Madness, and Desire by Michel Foucault (Minnesota, 2015). Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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