State, Space, World Selected Essays [Paperback]

Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991) was a French sociologist, intellectual, and philosopher. His many books includeThe Critique of Everyday Life,The Production of Space,The Survival of Capitalism, andThe Urban Revolution(available from Minnesota, 2003).

One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation. Shortly after the 1974 publication of his landmark bookThe Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of his career: a consideration of the history and geographies of the modern state through a monumental study that linked several disciplines, including political science, sociology, geography, and history.

State, Space, Worldcollects a series of Lefebvre’s key writings on the state from this period. Making available in English for the first time the as-yet-unexplored political aspect of Lefebvre’s work, it contains essays on philosophy, political theory, state formation, spatial planning, and globalization, as well as provocative reflections on the possibilities and limits of grassroots democracy under advanced capitalism.

State, Space, Worldis an essential complement toThe Production of Space,The Urban Revolution, andThe Critique of Everyday Life. Lefebvre’s original and prescient analyses that emerge in this volume are urgently relevant to contemporary debates on globalization and neoliberal capitalism.