Critique of Everyday Life 2

Following the introductory first volume of his three-volume work, in which Henri Lefebvre focuses on the criticism of everyday life, where power relations, commodity fetishism and alienation are reproduced every day, which nevertheless continues to be the real basis of change and revolutions, in this second volume called Foundations of the Sociology of Everyday Life, he provides the necessary information to examine the subject. It deals with method and theoretical categories.

Discussing concepts such as needs and desire, dreams and reality, Lefebvre says that people bring their lives to the stage of history by breaking the boundaries of daily life only in moments of revolution, but apart from these moments when history and life coincide, daily life closes in on itself. "Are we therefore to describe everyday life as the short-lived, humble, and disgusting element of life?" The thinker asks, in pursuit of a more holistic perspective, he also discusses the "fragmented sciences", philosophers, historians, structuralists, culturalists and political scientists of his time. With this work, in which he brings alive issues such as alienation and fetishism, Lefebvre not only puts daily life at the center of the theory, but also criticizes the fragmented understandings of these disciplines through it. Lefebvre's theory, which attracts more attention today because it places the problem of space and the city at the center of radical politics and social sciences, can be traced as well as the thoughts and criticisms that were effective in the '68 Movement.



Number of Pages: 388

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Sel Publishing

First Printing Year: 2013

Number of Pages: 388

Language Turkish