Chapter 1 - Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Reflection beyond the Academic Disciplines
Introduction
Henri Lefebvre between Philosophy and Sociology: a Thinker who Defies Categorization
Young Lefebvre. Philosophy as Shared Critical Thought
Marx against Marxism: Henri Lefebvre''s Critical Political Philosophy
The Specter of Lefebvre''s Literary Production on the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord: a Controversial Intellectual Friendship
Henri Lefebvre and Jean Paul Sartre: from the Polemic on the Theoretical Foundations of Existentialism to Antistalinist Action within the French Communist Party
Henri Lefebvre and Louis Althusser: against Structuralism
Henri Lefebvre and the Birth of French Urban Sociology
The Urban Critical Theory: Reading Henri Lefebvre between the Twentieth and the Twentieth-First Century
Conclusion
Chapter 2 - The Lefebvrian Lexicon
Introduction
2.1 Rural
Rural Sociology''s First Studies
The "Progressive-Regressive Method"
The Theory of Ground Rent as an Application of the Progressive-Regressive Method
Conclusion
2.2 Urban
Introduction
In Praise of the Fringe: Henri Lefebvre and Our (Mis)Understanding of the Suburbs
What is (the New) Urban Society? From the City as a Form to Urbanisation as a Process
The Asymmetrical Relation between the Urban and the Rural
Habitat, Dwelling and the Housing Question in Lefebvre''s Thought
A Critique of Le Corbusier''s Functionalist Urbanism
Conclusion
Chapter 3 - The Philosophy and Sociology of Space
Introduction
The Political Theory of Space Project
The Production of Space
Historical Phenomenology of Space
The Paris Commune and the Destiny of the City: Insurgence for Space
On the Concept of "Urban Utopia"
"Changer la vie": The Critique of Everyday Life and the Lefebvrian Roots of Situationist Thought
Conclusion
Chapter 4 - Understanding the Present with Henri Lefebvre
Introduction
The "Right to the City": a Lefebvrian Genealogy
Power''s "Passive Revolution": the "Right to the City" as Governance from Above
What is the "Right to the City" Now? Taking back Space and Time
Conclusion
Chapter 5 - Conclusion
