Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche: or the Realm of Shadows

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Henri Lefebvre saw Marx as an unavoidable, necessary, but insufficient starting point, and always insisted on the importance of Hegel to understanding Marx.Metaphilosophyalso suggested the significance he ascribed to Nietzsche, in the realm of shadows through which philosophy seeks to think the world.Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche: or the Realm of the Shadowsproposes that the modern world is, at the same time, Hegelian in terms of the state, Marxist in terms of the social and society and Nietzschean in terms of civilisation and its values. As early as 1939, Lefebvre had pioneered a French reading of Nietzsche that rejected the philosophers appropriation by fascists, bringing out the tragic implications of Nietzsches proclamation that God is dead long before this approach was followed by such later writers as Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze. Forty years later, in the last of his philosophical writings, Lefebvre juxtaposed the contributions of the three great thinkers, in a text thats themes remain surprisingly relevant today.

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Henri Lefebvre(19011991), former resistance fighter and Professor of Sociology at Strasbourg and Nanterre, 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.