Caution! For multiple reasons the stock that we show on the website sometimes differs with the real stock we have in the shop.
Critique of Everyday Life, Volume II
€33.25
“The more needs a human being has, the more he exists,” quips Lefebvre in a savage critique of consumerist society, first published in 1947. The French philosopher, historian and Marxist sociologist, who died this summer at age 90, meditates on the dehumanization and ugliness smuggled into daily life under cover of purity, utility, beauty. He deconstructs leisure as a form of social control, spanks surrealism for its turning away from reality, and attempts to get past the “mystification” inherent in bourgeois life by analyzing Chaplin’s films, Brecht’s epic theater, peasant festivals, daydreams, Rimbaud and the rhythms of work and relaxation. Rejecting the inauthentic, which he perceives in a church service or in rote work from which one is alienated, Lefebvre nevertheless seeks to unearth the human potential that may be inherent in such rituals.
Author: Lefebvre, Henri Year: 2002 ISBN: 1859846505 Pages: 480 Language: English Publisher: Verso Publisher's city: London Publication date: