Dialectical Materialism by Lefebvre, Henri

Dialectical Materialism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816656189)

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Dialectical Materialism by Lefebvre, Henri

Dialectical Materialism

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Dialectical Materialism by Lefebvre, Henri

Dialectical Materialism

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With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities, the book highlights the tension-fraught relationship between Lefebvre and the French Communist Party (PCF). For Lefebvre, unlike for the PCF, Marxism was above all a dynamic movement of theory and practice. Dialectical Materialism is an implicit response to Joseph Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism and an attempt to show that the Stalinist understanding of the concept was dogmatic and oversimplified.

This edition contains a new introduction by Stefan Kipfer, explaining the book's contemporary ramifications in the ever-expanding reach of the urban in the twentieth-century Western world.

Author: Henri Lefebvre
ISBN-10: 0816656185
ISBN-13: 9780816656189
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 2
By Henri Lefebvre
By Henri Lefebvre
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Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was heralded in Radical Philosophy as "the most prolific of French Marxist intellectuals"; he was a sociologist, philosopher, activist, and public intellectual.

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