...This chapter discusses the perception of Henri Lefebvre on the concept of space. Anchoring his argument on the analysis of Marx on commodity and labor, Lefebvre states that space is one of the universal forms of social practice. He said space has a paradoxical quality of being both abstract...

... in which such radical possibilities might be developed through a dialogue with the philosophy of praxis in Marx, Lukács, Gramsci, and Lefebvre. In many ways, the production of nature permits a radical rethinking of such work. environmentalism environmental justice Haraway Donna Mitchell Don nature...

... Loftus, has been a resurgence of dualistic understandings of the world: for example, that nature is inflicting revenge on arrogant human societies. The book reformulates—with the assistance of such philosophers as Georg Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, Henri Lefebvre, and others—a politics of the environment...

...Lefebvre postulates a definition of architecture in opposition to urban planning by taking the perspective of habitation and the practices of the inhabitant as the starting point of his inquiry. This delineates a field of research for the architectural imagination towards a theorizing of pleasure...

... capitalism consumer culture Europe Marx modernity postwar Lefebvre architecture urbanism urban planning This inquiry is not limited to specialized or technical questions about architecture. Its scope is broader than a purely aesthetic analysis. To use a common expression, we could say...

...In a manner resembling a medieval treatise, Lefebvre offers a range of possible objections to the project of the book–the quest for an architecture of jouissance–and refutes them by proposing counter-arguments. death happiness Jaulin Robert objections architectural rationality pain and pleasure...

... affects affectivity ambiguity resentment displeasure mirrors and reflection ambiguity analogy monumentality monuments nonbody and body politics aesthetics artworks fecundity dwelling Heidegger Martin capitalism consumer culture Europe Marx modernity postwar Lefebvre architecture...

...Lefebvre’s opposition to Western intellectual asceticism finds its second target in structrualist anthropology, which he criticizes in parallel to offering a broad account on spaces of habitation in pre-modern cultures. anthropology capitalism Lévi Strauss Claude Logos relationships Self...

...Lefebvre points out the lacunae of architectural history, including the relationship between the city and the countryside and the role of urban utopias. He calls for a new conceptual framework oriented towards processes of appropriation and domination of space; and theorizes the practice...

... Proust Proust Marcel In Search of Lost Time social practice aesthetics détournement asceticism capitalism consumer culture Europe Marx modernity postwar Lefebvre architecture urbanism urban planning The psychology of pleasure and pain has done little to alter the claims of philosophy. Yet...

...Referring to a number of structuralist and poststructualist authors, Lefebvre translates the theoretical framework of semiology into a discussion on architecture. This allows him to historicize the relationship between architecture and pleasure in pre-modern and the capitalist periods. logology...

...Lefebvre summarizes the main concepts introduced in the book and embraces the architectural project as the leverage to rethink everyday life beyond its premises of post-war modernization, in particular the division between work and non-work. irreducible the reductivism social practice communiste...

...This book frames a contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. The book explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical foundations of Lefebvre’s oeuvre, especially his direct involvement in the fields of urban development, planning...

...This chapter focuses on the engagement of Henri Lefebvre with the research of the Institut de sociologieurbaine (ISU) about the practices of dwelling (habitation) between the 1960s and early 1970s. It shows how Lefebvre’s idea develops from his analysis on ISU’s research, which...

.... This chapter examines the perspective of Henri Lefebvre’s work on the possibility of differential space which contradicts abstract space of postwar capitalism. It also describes Lefebvre’s project as a specific orientation of his theorizing of space in general. architecture capitalism cities contradictions...

..., and developing and extending Henri Lefebvre’s ideas about the right to the city. Harvey David Lefebvre Henri ontology right to the city theory spatial perspective assertive Foucault Michel Marx Karl geographically uneven development justice as a concept polis also city state Rawls John Young Iris...

... of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, it demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. The book focuses...

...The French Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre meditates on the relationship between jouissance, space, and architecture. Commissioned as a part of a study on tourist new towns in Spain, the book identifies spaces devoted to pleasure, enjoyment, sensuality, and desire as sites where...

...Lefebvre argues that the project of an architecture, or space, of jouissance must be centered on the body, its rhythms, and the possibility of a “pedagogy” of senses. This argument is developed by revisiting literary and architectural precedence of spaces of jouissance, from the Renaissance...

...Lefebvre returns to the basic Marxist distinction between “use” and “exchange value” in order to theorize a possibility of an “economy of jouissance” which accounts for the dynamics of collective use of spaces. capitalism economics economy definitions of exchange value Freud Sigmund Marx Karl...