Dialectical Materialism - Softcover

Lefebvre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816656185 ISBN 13: 9780816656189

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0816656185
• ISBN 13: 9780816656189
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192