The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient w
ork about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greate
st philosophers and is now available for the first time in one complete volume.
Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, Critique was an inspiration for th
e 1968 student revolution in France. It is a founding text of cultural studies a
nd a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociol
ogy, architecture, political theory and urbanism.
