Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity.

Autorentext

Patrick Gamsby is Scholarly Communications Librarian and is Cross Appointed at the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of three other books: Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life (2022), The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (2023), and The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse (2024).

Klappentext

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity.

Inhalt

1. Towards Action-Thought

2. Everyday Life and the Modern World

3. The Promise of Happiness

4. Technology and Its People

5. Alienation, or the Blockage of the Possible

6. Possibilities

7. The Return of the Dialectic