Dialectical Materialism
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Dialectical Materialism
By (Author) Henri Lefebvre
Translated by John Sturrock
Foreword by Stefan Kipfer
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st August 2009
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
146.32
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 13mm
Description
With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities, the book highlights the tension-fraught relationship between Lefebvre and the French Communist Party (PCF). For Lefebvre, unlike for the PCF, Marxism was above all a dynamic movement of theory and practice. Dialectical Materialism is an implicit response to Joseph Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism and an attempt to show that the Stalinist understanding of the concept was dogmatic and oversimplified.
Author Bio
Henri Lefebvre (19011991) was heralded in Radical Philosophy as the most prolific of French Marxist intellectuals; he was a sociologist, philosopher, activist, and public intellectual.
