Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century. This accessible and innovative introduction to the work of Lefebvre combines biography and theory in a critical assessment of the dynamics of Lefebvre's character, thought, and times. Exploring key Lefebvrian concepts, Andy Merrifield demonstrates the evolu...(展开全部)

Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century. This accessible and innovative introduction to the work of Lefebvre combines biography and theory in a critical assessment of the dynamics of Lefebvre's character, thought, and times. Exploring key Lefebvrian concepts, Andy Merrifield demonstrates the evolu...(展开全部)

Henri Lefebvre has been celebrated as one of the most influential social theorists of the twentieth century. Understanding Henri Lefebvre places Lefebvre in his historical and intellectual context and analyzes the extraordinary range of his work, across politics, philosophy, history, literature and culture. Particular emphasis is given to Lefebvre's trilogy of inspirational thi...(展开全部)

Henri Lefebvre is now recognised as one of the most influential social theorists of the 20th century. In English, his writings on cities, everyday life, and the production of space have become hugely influential across cultural studies, sociology, geography and architecture. This title presents the full range of Lefebvre's thought. The selection reinforces the centrality of Lef...(展开全部)

Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)

Eight years after it was first published, Photography: A Critical Introduction still has no direct competitor. Carefully structured, it identifies key debates in photographic theory, is user-friendly and is ideal for stimulating discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text featu...(展开全部)

Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential figures of twentieth century philosophy but his reputation was tainted by his associations with Nazism. The posthumous publication of the Black Notebooks, which reveal the shocking extent of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism, has only cast further doubt on his work. Now more than ever, a new introduction to Heidegger is needed to re-asses...(展开全部)

In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and globa...(展开全部)

This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative literature world--wide in the 1990s. In the past twenty years of a range of new developments in critical theory have changed patt...(展开全部)

Introduces the interdisciplinary importance of Michel Serres (1930-2019) across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences Author of some 70 books and an 'immortal' member of the Académie française, Michel Serres has produced an inimitable cross-disciplinary body of work. His scholarship contributes to current debates in post-humanism, object-oriented ontology, ecologic...(展开全部)