State, Space, World

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State, Space, World

Selected Essays

Henri Lefebvre
Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden
Translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner, and Stuart Elden

Table of Contents

$28.50 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5317-1

$85.50 cloth
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5316-4

Leading intellectual Henri Lefebvre on political and state theory

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 book The Production of Space, 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, World collects 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, World is an essential complement to The Production of Space, The Urban Revolution, and The 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.

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

Neil Brenner is professor of sociology and metropolitan studies at New York University.

Stuart Elden is professor of political geography at Durham University.

Gerald Moore is a lecturer in languages in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Université Paris XII (Val de Marne).

320 pages | 1 b&w photo | 6 x 9 | 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: State, Space, World: Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism
Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden

Part I. State, Society, Autogestion

1. The State and Society (1964)
2. The Withering Away of the State: The Sources of Marxist–Leninist State Theory (1964)
3. The State in the Modern World (1975)
4. Comments on a New State Form (1979)
5. Theoretical Problems of Autogestion (1966)
6. “It Is the World That Has Changed”: Interview with Autogestion et socialisme (1976)

Part II. Space, State Spatiality, World

7. Reflections on the Politics of Space (1970)
8. Space: Social Product and Use Value (1979)
9. The Worldwide and the Planetary (1973)
10. Space and Mode of Production (1980)
11. Space and the State (1978)
12. Review of Kostas Axelos’s Towards Planetary Thought (1965)
13. The World according to Kostas Axelos (1986)
14. The Worldwide Experience (1978)
15. Revolutions (1986)

Notes
Further Readings
Publication History
Index

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State, Space, World *Selected Essays* Henri Lefebvre Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden Translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner, and Stuart Elden Table of Contents		$28.50 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5317-1 $85.50 cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5316-4
Leading intellectual Henri Lefebvre on political and state theory 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 book The Production of Space, 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, World collects 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, World is an essential complement to The Production of Space, The Urban Revolution, and The 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. Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991) was a French sociologist, intellectual, and philosopher. His many books include The Critique of Everyday Life, The Production of Space, The Survival of Capitalism, and The Urban Revolution (Minnesota, 2003). Neil Brenner is professor of sociology and metropolitan studies at New York University. Stuart Elden is professor of political geography at Durham University. Gerald Moore is a lecturer in languages in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Université Paris XII (Val de Marne). 320 pages \| 1 b&w photo \| 6 x 9 \| 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: State, Space, World: Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden Part I. State, Society, Autogestion 1. The State and Society (1964) 2. The Withering Away of the State: The Sources of Marxist–Leninist State Theory (1964) 3. The State in the Modern World (1975) 4. Comments on a New State Form (1979) 5. Theoretical Problems of Autogestion (1966) 6. “It Is the World That Has Changed”: Interview with Autogestion et socialisme (1976) Part II. Space, State Spatiality, World 7. Reflections on the Politics of Space (1970) 8. Space: Social Product and Use Value (1979) 9. The Worldwide and the Planetary (1973) 10. Space and Mode of Production (1980) 11. Space and the State (1978) 12. Review of Kostas Axelos’s Towards Planetary Thought (1965) 13. The World according to Kostas Axelos (1986) 14. The Worldwide Experience (1978) 15. Revolutions (1986) Notes Further Readings Publication History Index