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One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation. Shortly after the 1974 publication of his landmark book The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of his career: a consideration of the history and geographies of the modern state through a monumental study that linked several disciplines, including political science, sociology, geography, and history. State, Space, World collects a series of Lefebvre’s key writings on the state from this period. Making available in English for the first time the as-yet-unexplored political aspect of Lefebvre’s work, it contains essays on philosophy, political theory, state formation, spatial planning, and globalization, as well as provocative reflections on the possibilities and limits of grassroots democracy under advanced capitalism. State, Space, World is an essential complement to The Production of Space, The Urban Revolution, and The Critique of Everyday Life. Lefebvre’s original and prescient analyses that emerge in this volume are urgently relevant to contemporary debates on globalization and neoliberal capitalism.
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State, Space, World SELECTED ESSAYS Henri Lefebvre Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden Translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner, and Stuart Elden University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London For publication information on previously published material in this Contents book, see pages 3 09-11. Every effort was made to obtain permission to reproduce material in this book. If any proper acknowledgment has not been included here, we encourage copyright holders to notify the publisher. Copyright 2009 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press Acknowledgments Introduction. State, Space, World: Lefebvre and the Survival of Capitalism N EI L BREN N ER AN D STUART ELDEN Vll 1 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Part I. State, Society, Autogestion http://www. upress.umn.edu 1. The State and Society (1964) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991. State, space, world : selected essays / Henri Lefebvre ; edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden ; translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner, and Stuart Elden. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0 -8166-5316-4 (hc : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-8166-5317-1 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Social sciences-Philosophy. I. Brenner, Neil. II. Elden, 51 2. The W ithering Away of the State: The Sources of Marxist-Leninist State Theory (1964) 69 3· The State in the Modern World (1975) 95 4. Comments on a New State Form (1979) 124 5. Theoretical Problems of Autogestion (1966) 138 6. "It Is the World That Has Changed": Interview with Autogestion et socialisme (1976) 153 Stuart, 1971- III. Title. H61.l5.L43 2009 Part II. Space, State Spatiality, World 3 00.1-dc22 2008044595 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 7. Reflections on the Politics of Space (1970) 167 8. Space: Social Product and Use Value (1979) 185 9. The W