Metaphilosophy

Metaphilosophy

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Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thought

In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world becoming philosophical and philosophy becoming worldly” as a leitmotif, examining the relation between Hegelian–Marxist supersession and Nietzschean overcoming. Metaphilosophy is conceived of as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a programme of radical worldwide change. The book demonstrates Lefebvre’s threefold debt to Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, but it also brings a number of other figures into the conversation, including Sartre, Heidegger and Axelos. A key text in Lefebvre’s oeuvre,Metaphilosophy is also a milestone in contemporary thinking about philosophy’s relation to the world.

Reviews

  • One of the great French intellectual activists of the twentieth century.

    David Harvey
  • The last great classical philosopher.

    Fredric Jameson
  • Itis not excessive to claim that he is the ecophilosopher of the 21st century,for he made the connection between the massive despoiling of the globalecosystems, the new shape of social time and social space and the struggle forthe transformation of everyday life which, he claims, is the key to the projectof changing life and repairing our collective relationship to nature.

    Stanley Aronowitz