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Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest
living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes
original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical
materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of
everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical
work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many
different fields.
The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space
the space of the philosophers and real space the physical and
social spheres in which we all live. In the course of his
exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological
considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the
everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge
the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the
mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing
so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics,
and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and
obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent
continental philosophy.
This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also
characterized by its author''s wit and by anecdote, as well as by a
deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith''s sensitive
translation precisely captures.
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