Translated by John Moore and Gregory Ellioot
Introduced by Michel Trebitsch

The Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. The trilogy that provided the philosophy behind the 1968 student revolution in France, it is considered to be the founding text of what we now know as cultural studies. Whether discussing sport, household gadgets, the countryside, surrealism, Charlie Chaplin or religion, Lefebvre always concentrates on the minutiae of lived experience in work and leisure, daydreams, and festivities. Denounced by both the right and left when it was first published in France in 1947, today this text is recognized as a path-breaking, radical, and hugely influential book.

“A savage critique of consumerist society.” — Publishers Weekly

“The last great classical philosopher.” — Fredric Jameson

	Volume 1 Focuses on the various phenomena of daily life and considers them in new ways. 312 pages Paperback ISBN-13: 978 1 83367 191 5 US$26.95 / £14.99 / CAN$33.50
	Volume 2: Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday Identifies categories within everyday life, such as the theories of the semantic field and of moments. 480 pages Paperback ISBN-13: 978 1 83367 192 2 US$29.95 / £15.99 / CAN$37.50
	Volume 3: From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life) Explores the crisis of modernity and the decisive assertion of technological modernism. 180 pages Paperback ISBN-13: 978 1 83367 193 9 US$24.95 / £12.99 / CAN$31

Henri Lefebvre, former taxi-driver, resistance fighter, and professor of sociology at Strasbourg and Nanterre (1901–1991), was a member of the French Communist Party from 1928 until his expulsion in 1957. He was the author of sixty books on philosophy, sociology, politics, architecture, and urbanism.