Dialectical Materialism

✍ Scribed by Henri Lefebvre

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 192
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. This edition contains a new introduction by Stefan Kipfer, explaining the book’s contemporary ramifications in the ever-expanding reach of the urban in the twentieth-century Western world.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 8
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE......Page 10
CODE TO REFERENCES......Page 12
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION......Page 14
Dialectical Materialism......Page 4
Foreword to the Fifth Edition......Page 34
I. THE DIALECTICAL CONTRADICTION......Page 42
A critique of Hegel's dialectic......Page 67
Historical materialism......Page 81
Dialectical materialism......Page 100
Unity of the doctrine......Page 121
II. THE PRODUCTION OF MAN......Page 135
Analysis of the Product......Page 140
The activities of integration......Page 145
The controlled sector and the uncontrolled sector......Page 153
Physical determinism......Page 162
Social determinism......Page 166
The total man......Page 169
Towards the total content......Page 187
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 190

✦ Subjects

Философские дисциплины;Первоисточники по философии;Лефевр Анри;