(P/B) INTRODUCTION TO MODERNITY

Παρουσίαση

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. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's Note
INTRODUCTION
FIRST PRELUDE - On Irony, Maieutic and History
SECOND PRELUDE - Oedipus
THIRD PRELUDE - The Metamorphoses of the Devil
FOURTH PRELUDE - On the Theme of the New Life
FIFTH PRELUDE - The Message of the Crucified Sun
SIXTH PRELUDE - A Letter
SEVENTH PRELUDE - Notes on the New Town
EIGHTH PRELUDE - A Vision
NINTH PRELUDE - Nature and Nature Conquered
TENTH PRELUDE - Renewal, Youth, Repetition
ELEVENTH PRELUDE - What is Modernity?
TWELFTH PRELUDE - Towards a New Romanticism?
NOTES
INDEX