9780631181774-0631181776-The Production of Space

The Production of Space

ISBN-13: 9780631181774
ISBN-10: 0631181776
Edition: 1
Author: Henri Lefebvre
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Paperback 464 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780631181774
ISBN-10: 0631181776
Edition: 1
Author: Henri Lefebvre
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Paperback 464 pages

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The Production of Space (ISBN-13: 9780631181774 and ISBN-10: 0631181776), written by authors Henri Lefebvre, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 1992. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Foreign Language Study & Reference (Earth Sciences, Consciousness & Thought, Philosophy, Metaphysics) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Production of Space (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Foreign Language Study & Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $9.88.

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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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