Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.--Publisher description.  Read more...
Plan of the present work --

Social space --

Spatial architectonics --

From absolute space to abstract space --

Contradictory space --

From the contradictions of space to differential space --

Openings and conclusions --

Afterword / David Harvey.

亨利-勒菲弗尔有相当大的权力声称自己是最伟大的在世哲学家。他的作品横跨约60年，包括从辩证唯物主义到建筑、城市主义和日常生活经验等各种主题的原创作品。空间的生产》是他的主要哲学作品，许多不同领域的学者对其翻译期待已久。该书是对精神空间（哲学家的空间）和现实空间（我们都生活在其中的物理和社会领域）之间的和解的探索。在他的探索过程中，亨利-勒菲弗尔从对空间意义的形而上学和意识形态的考虑转向其在家庭和城市的日常生活中的体验。换句话说，他试图在理论和实践的领域之间，在精神和社会之间，以及在哲学和现实之间架起桥梁。在这样做的过程中，他贯穿了艺术、文学、建筑和经济，并进一步为最近许多大陆哲学所特有的僵化和模糊的方法和理论提供了强有力的解药。这是一部具有远见卓识和精辟见解的作品。它的特点还在于作者的机智和轶事，以及唐纳德-尼古拉斯-史密斯敏锐的翻译精确地捕捉到的灵巧的风格。 阅读全文...

本作品的计划 --

社会空间 --

空间结构学 --

从绝对空间到抽象空间 --

矛盾的空间 --

从空间的矛盾到微分空间------。

开篇和结论 --

后记 / David Harvey.