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Dialectical Materialism
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Dialectical Materialism
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Henri Lefebvre
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Translated by John Sturrock
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Foreword by Stefan Kipfer
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:192 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 127 |
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| Category/Genre | Western philosophy from c 1900 to now |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780816656189
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| Classifications | Dewey:146.32 |
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| Audience | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Imprint |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Publication Date |
30 March 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities, the book highlights the tension-fraught relationship between Lefebvre and the French Communist Party (PCF). For Lefebvre, unlike for the PCF, Marxism was above all a dynamic movement of theory and practice. Dialectical Materialism is an implicit response to Joseph Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism and an attempt to show that the Stalinist understanding of the concept was dogmatic and oversimplified.
Author Biography
Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was heralded in Radical Philosophy as "the most prolific of French Marxist intellectuals"; he was a sociologist, philosopher, activist, and public intellectual.
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