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Introduction to Modernity

by Henri Lefebvre

The sociologist and philosopher analyses the dawning of modernity.
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.

Paperback, 416 pages

ISBN: 9781844677832

January 2012

$15.95 / £8.99 / $20.00CAN

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