Everyday Life in the Modern World

"Everyday Life in the Modern World", since its publication, has guided those who want to create opposition against the current order based on daily life itself. The book, published in France just before 1968, heralded new opposition movements and a new effort to perceive and comprehend the world.

In this work, Henri Lefebvre puts daily life, which philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists treat as a mediation, as a sign or excuse for something other than itself, at the center of critical theory. If daily life, which is the area where all the tensions of modern society are reflected, is made an object of research, both the techniques of repression and the possibilities of liberation can be looked at from a different perspective. The function of language in covering up social oppression, the illusions created by the ideology of consumption, and the terror implemented by the apparatus of power can only be understood from daily life; Because the society that we try to name in various ways, that we examine in economic terms, the mobility of status groups, and the understanding of the individual looking out for his own interests, is so complex that these conceptual tools are inadequate. Only a historical criticism that focuses on daily life and the various forms that this life takes can overcome this difficult effort; It can reveal oppositions, resistances and rebellion possibilities that continue to exist but are invisible in the current society.

Henri Lefebvre's book has not lost any of its currency until today. The theory developed in "Everyday Life in the Modern World" is still waiting for the subjects who will put it into practice.



Number of Pages: 224

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 224

Language Turkish