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The Production Of Space. Lefebvre "theory

Posted on:2013-01-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330374954405Subject:Foreign Marxism
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Lefebvre's thought is always the reflection of the reality and time, including thethought of the critique of everyday life in his early time and the thought of turning to thestudy of the social space in his later time. Lefebvre, with a keen eye, captured thedistortion and alienation of everyday life in the capitalist society and tried to make anew reflection of the critique of everyday life within the sight of urban space. That is tosay, Lefebvre's attempt is to solve the problem of the distortion and alienation ofeveryday life within the sight mixed by the study of the social space and the critique ofeveryday life. His study of the social space has groundbreaking meaning and the booknamed "The Production of Space" is the concentrated expression of his thought.Hisinterpretation of the space includes the social space, the urban space and the politicalspace,and made the space link to the people's everyday lives, urbanization,globalization and police.Through the analysis of space, Lefebvre build a theoreticalsystem of the overall knowledge of the space. However, the ultimate goal of Lefebvreis not the theory and his ultimate aspiration is to build a new political conceptionwhich is different from the philosophy of Marx.Although Lefebvre expanded Marx'sthinking about the space and liberated people from the narrow of time so that peoplebegin to pay attention to the space outside of time, but because his theory lack of theessence of the practice so that it have to possess the nature of Utopia inevitably....
Keywords/Search Tags:Lefebvre, space production, daily life, Marx
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