{"product_id":"dialectical-materialism-9780816656189","title":"Dialectical Materialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Henri Lefebvre\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished \u003ci\u003eDialectical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities, the book highlights the tension-fraught relationship between Lefebvre and the French Communist Party (PCF). For Lefebvre, unlike for the PCF, Marxism was above all a dynamic movement of theory and practice. \u003ci\u003eDialectical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e is an implicit response to Joseph Stalin's \u003ci\u003eDialectical and Historical Materialism\u003c\/i\u003e and an attempt to show that the Stalinist understanding of the concept was dogmatic and oversimplified. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47610312163479,"sku":"9780816656189","price":2476.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780816656189.webp?v=1775064105","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/dialectical-materialism-9780816656189","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}