Experimenting the limits of the possible, Lefebvre and utopia

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE
Author/s Cassandra Fontana
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/118
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 46-62 File size 390 KB
DOI 10.3280/SUR2019-118005
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The work of the sociologist and philosopher Lefebvre (1901-1991) has recently seen a re-newed diffusion both in French urban studies and in the English-speaking social sciences (Busquet, 2012). In this reinterpretation process, the author’s ideas have sometimes undergone a weakening of the visionary and emancipatory capacity that characterizes them, thus obscur-ing, or simply leaving some key elements in the background. The present paper intends to em-phasize these elements re-reading of the concept of utopia within Lefebvre’s work while ex-ploring possible connections with recent attempts to rehabilitate the term.

Keywords: Lefebvre, utopia, ideology, everyday, reappropriation, self management

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Cassandra Fontana, Sperimentare i limiti del possibile, Lefebvre e l’utopia in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 118/2019, pp 46-62, DOI: 10.3280/SUR2019-118005