CITY, SPACE, AND SOCIETY : henri lefebvre and the theory of the production of space

Henri Lefebvre’s was the major theorist of space and of the urban. This is the definitive book on Lefebvre. Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023 This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre’s theory of space and of the urban. Henri Lefebvre belongs to the generation of the great French intellectuals and philosophers, together with his contemporaries Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre. His theory has experienced a remarkable revival over the last two decades, and is discussed and applied today in many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, particularly in urban studies, geography, urban sociology, urban anthropology, architecture and planning. Lefebvre, together with David Harvey, is one of the leading and most read theoreticians in these fields. This book explains in an accessible way the theoretical and epistemological context of this work in French philosophy and in the German dialectic (Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche), and reconstructs in detail the historical development of its different elements. It also gives an overview on the receptions of Lefebvre and discusses a wide range of applications of this theory in many research fields, such as urban and regional development, urbanization, urbanity, social space, and everyday life. Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: On the Reception of Lefebvre’s Theory 1.1 The Specificity of the Urban and the Question of Social Space 1.2 Critical Urban Theory 1.3 Postmodern Geographies 1.4 Critical Research with Lefebvre Chapter 2: The Three-Dimensional Dialectic 2.1 Henri Lefebvre: L’aventure du siècle 2.2 The Concept of Praxis 2.3 The Dialectical Movement 2.4 Towards a Three-Dimensional Dialectic Chapter 3: Urbanisation and Urban Society 3.1 The Critique of Everyday Life 3.2 The Complete Urbanisation of Society 3.3 The Space-Time Axis of Urbanisation 3.4 The Urban Society 3.5 The Dialectic of Urbanisation Chapter 4: The Urban Level 4.1 The City in an Urbanised World 4.2 The Urban Level: Mediation 4.3 The General and the Private 4.4 The Urban Form: Centrality 4.5 The Right to the City 4.6 The Dialectic of the Urban Chapter 5: The Production of Space 5.1 Space as a Product 5.2 Physical, Mental, and Social Space 5.3 Perceived Space: Spatial Practice 5.4 Conceived Space: The Representation of Space 5.5 Lived Space: Spaces of Representation 5.6 The Three Dimensions of the Production of Space 5.7 The Dialectic of the Production of Space Chapter 6: On the History of Spaces 6.1 Space as a Historical Product 6.2 Absolute Space 6.3 Abstract Space 6.4 Differential Space 6.5 The Urban as Concrete Utopia 6.6 Histories of Urban Spaces Chapter 7: The State and the Commodification of Space 7.1 A Political Economy of the Production of Space 7.2 Space as Concrete Abstraction 7.3 Space and Social Relations 7.4 The State and the Act of Exchange 7.5 Space, the State, and the Reproduction of Society Chapter 8: A Spatio-Temporal Theory of Society 8.1 Spatio-Temporal Dimensions 8.2 Spatio-Temporal Levels 8.3 Spatio-Temporal Configurations 8.4 Staying in Motion Notes Acknowledgements Bibliography Index Schmid presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre's theory of space and of the urban, explaining in an accessible way the theoretical and epistemological context of his work in French philosophy and in the German dialectic (Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche). This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre's theory of space and of the urban. Henri Lefebvre belongs to the generation of the great French intellectuals and philosophers, together with his contemporaries Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre. His theory has experienced a remarkable revival over the last two decades, and is discussed and applied today in many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, particularly in urban studies, geography, urban sociology, urban anthropology, architecture and planning. Lefebvre, together with David Harvey, is one of the leading and most read theoreticians in these fields. This book explains in an accessible way the theoretical and epistemological context of this work in French philosophy and in the German dialectic (Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche), and reconstructs in detail the historical development of its different elements. It also gives an overview on the receptions of Lefebvre and discusses a wide range of applications of this theory in many research fields, such as urban and regional development, urbanization, urbanity, social space, and everyday life