Lefebvre Henri. Dialectical Materialism

Published by the University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Originally published in French as Le Matérialisme dialectique. Copyright 1940 by Presses Universitaires de France.
ISBN: 978-0-8166-5618-9The first U.S. edition of an important French Marxist text
Dialectical Materialism is an implicit response to Joseph Stalin’s Dialectical and Historical Materialism and an attempt to show that the Stalinist understanding of the concept was dogmatic and oversimplified. This edition contains a new introduction by Stefan Kipfer, explaining the book’s contemporary ramifications in the ever-expanding reach of the urban in the twentieth-century Western world.