1st Edition

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity

By Patrick Gamsby Copyright 2026
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, and Modernity provides a new interpretation of the work of Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), reframing it as being above all a metaphilosophy of modernity. Henri Lefebvre is increasingly being recognized as one of the great twentieth-century thinkers. Nevertheless, the majority of scholarship on Lefebvre predominantly focuses on his theorizing of space, often taking... Read more

1. Towards Action-Thought

2. Everyday Life and the Modern World

3. The Promise of Happiness

4. Technology and Its People

5. Alienation, or the Blockage of the Possible

6. Possibilities

7. The Return of the Dialectic

Biography

Patrick Gamsby is Scholarly Communications Librarian and is Cross Appointed at the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is the author of three other books: Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life (2022), The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (2023), and The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse (2024).