Lefebvre, Love and Struggle: Spatial

Lefebvre, Love and Struggleprovides the only comprehensive guide to Lefebvre's work. It is an accessible introduction to one of the most significant European thinkers of the twentieth century. Rob Shields draws on the full range of Lefebvre's writings, including many previously untranslated and unpublished works and correspondence. Topics covered include Lefebvre's early relationship with Marxism, his critique of the rise of fascism, as well as hisCritique of Everyday Lifeand the significant work on urban space for which he is best known today.

Rob Shields is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa.

Preface and acknowledgements	p. viii
Lefebvre's significance	p. 1
Lefebvre's status	p. 3
Adventure, art and wars 1905-45	p. 8
Le soleil crucifie: The crucified sun	p. 8
Humanistic Marxist	p. 19
Second World War Resistant	p. 26
Foundation works: Philosophies, Hegel, Surrealism	p. 29
Philosophies and the avant-garde	p. 30
Hegel, Marx and the Surrealist consciousness	p. 34
Hegel and method	p. 35
False authenticity: the roots of Fascism	p. 38
Alienation	p. 39
`Mystification' and false authenticity: the rise of Fascism	p. 44
L'homme total	p. 49
Critique of Fascism	p. 50
Moments of presence	p. 53
Neither Surrealism nor Dada	p. 59
Lefebvre and Dada	p. 55
Moments	p. 58
Presence	p. 60
The critique of everyday life: Marx and Nietzsche	p. 65
The search for everyday life	p. 65
Dialectic of banality and presence	p. 69
Nietzsche and everydayness	p. 71
Critique of everyday life	p. 74
The spectacle and visuality: metaphor, metonymy and legibility	p. 77
Postwar intellectual	p. 81
The dilemma of the Communist intellectuals	p. 81
Autocritiques and Romantics	p. 83
Rebel without a party	p. 86
The Situationists in Strasbourg	p. 89
Politics and revolution: the Situationist legacy	p. 92
Modernity	p. 94
Leisure and everyday life	p. 96
The Situationists' critique of moments	p. 103
May 1968	p. 106
Father of the dialectic and critic of Structuralism	p. 109
Hegel's dialectic	p. 111
Dialectical materialism: Marx's and Engels' critique of Hegel	p. 114
Nietzsche and dialectical materialism	p. 116
Spatialising the dialectic	p. 119
Structure and experience	p. 121
Against structural linguistics	p. 122
Existential Marxism: Sartre	p. 127
Arguments 1956-62	p. 134
Metaphilosophie: desire and alienation	p. 135
The production of space	p. 141
Urban and global spaces of capital	p. 142
The urban	p. 147
Space in the dialectic	p. 150
Translating L'Espace	p. 153
Beyond human geography	p. 157
Product-oeuvre-concrete abstraction	p. 159
Three-part dialectics	p. 160
A history of space	p. 170
Beyond history to a differential space	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 186
Bibliography of Lefebvre's work	p. 190
Secondary sources	p. 205
Index	p. 217
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