Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays

摘要

If it is no longer remarkable in Anglophone geography to speak of space, nature, and landscapes as socially produced, it is largely a reflection of the extent to which contemporary spatial and geographical thought has been transformed in its encounter with historical materialism over the past two decades, and in particular with the ideas-or at least the language-of the French Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre. While Marxist geographers and others had engaged with Lefebvre's work in the 1970s and 1980s, principally around urban questions, and Lefebvre's Sociology of Marx had remained in print through two English editions from 1968, Donald Nicholson-Smith's 1991 translation of Lefebvre's The Production of Space, though it followed the French publication by nearly a generation, excited geographers around Lefebvre's rich and multi-faceted conceptualization of relational space.