Introduction to Modernity

By Henri Lefebvre

Book Overview

Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. A classic analysis of the modern world using Marxist dialectic, it is a book which supersedes the conventional divisions between academic disciplines. With dazzling skill, Lefebvre moves from philosophy to sociology, from literature to history, to present a profound analysis of the social, political and cultural forces at work in France and the world in the aftermath of Stalin's death--an analysis in which the contours of our own "postmodernity" appear with startling clarity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844677834
• ISBN13: 9781844677832
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"