Introduction to Modernity

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.

• | Author: Henri Lefebvre
• | Publisher: Verso
• | Publication Date: Jan 16, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 414 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1844677834
• | ISBN-13: 9781844677832