Henri Lefebvre - Space, Philosophy and the Political

Yannis Flytzanis (Anthology Editor)

Henri Lefebvre - Space, Philosophy and the Political

Yannis Flytzanis (Anthology Editor)

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A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging socio-political dimensions of space.

The book emphasizes political elements of Lefebvre's work that have been little explored in research such as his understanding of nationalism, ideology and anti-fascism, while further extending existing research on key concepts by Lefebvre, such as the right to the city, through interdisciplinary perspectives and interpretations. Chapters consider how Lefebvre's thought can contribute to various fields of knowledge such as philosophy and critical studies, politics, space and urban studies, gender and the body. This collection sheds light on space as a site of political conflict and as a potential commons, as well as to raise new discussions and approaches to the question of self-governance.

List of Contributors
Introduction: Reclaiming Henri Lefebvre's critical legacy
PART 1: UPDATING AND INVENTING CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS

1. Some aspects of Lefebvre's contribution to the understanding of 'ideology'
Chryssoula Mitsopoulou

2. Commodity fetishism in Lefebvre's thought or the political character (?) of a non-political concept
Nikos Folinas

3. Rhythmanalysis: Lefebvre's secret garden
Guido Borelli

4. Henri Lefebvre: a heterodox reader of Marx – polis, politics and democracy
Yannis Flytzanis

PART 2: SPACE AS SOCIAL PRAXIS

5. Exploded politics of space: ambiguous households and bodies
Rob Shields

6. Encounters of gender and (urban) space, drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre
Dina Vaiou

7. The possibility of a more egalitarian and accessible city? Henri Lefebvre's Le Droit a la Ville
Laurence Costes

8. On the primary sources of Henri Lefebvre's theory of the 'Production of Space'
Rolando Espinosa

PART 3. POLITICAL STRUGGLES, SOCIAL PRACTICES AND VISIONS OF
THE FUTURE

9. Henri Lefebvre and the national question(s): dilemmas and actualities
Stefan Kipfer

10. Reclaiming the Lefebvrean Right to the City through urban commoning
Stavros Stavrides

11. Crossing urban studies with utopian thought: a Lefebvrian point of view
Francesco Biagi

12. Henri Lefebvre and Cornelius Castoriadis's autogestion: reinventing the polis as project
Marianna Charitonidou
Index

Product details

Published	Aug 06 2026
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Pages	248
ISBN	9781350537811
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions	234 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Yannis Flytzanis

Yannis Flytzanis is a lecturer in Social Theory an…

'This is a wonderful collection of new, heterodox engagements with Lefebvre's critical thinking, proposing renewed concrete utopias, radical democracy, and the collective imagination of urban life to confront the multiple challenges of the contemporary world'

Christian Schmid, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
'Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), though a pioneering figure of French Marxism and radical intellectual discourse, has for long remained curiously under-appreciated relative to some of his contemporaries blessed with fame far beyond Paris. Against this backdrop, Henri Lefebvre: Space, Philosophy and the Political offers an impressive contribution to a series of studies devoted to Lefebvre's oeuvre over the last two decades. This judiciously edited volume not only reveals the incomparable originality of Lefebvre as a philosopher--especially in novel conceptions of everyday life, space and state--but also underlines the enduring relevance of his theoretical innovations to contemporary imaginaries of revolutionary praxis.'

Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto, Canada