Henri Lefebvre’s Three Dimensional Dialectic of Production of Space

Subject Areas : Philosophy of art

Received: 2015-10-10 Accepted : 2015-12-22 Published : 2016-02-20

Keywords: dialectical logic, limitation of the content, negation of negation, production of space, dialectical materialism, three dimensional dialectics,

Abstract :

Developing the concept of space and dialectical materialism, Henri Lefebvre brings up triadic dialectic. He suggests that, in the past as in the present, our knowledge has been constrained by the limitation of the content and the social form. Hence, pinpointing the pitfalls of Hegelian-Marxian dialectics and formal logic, Lefebvre argues for the role of space in limiting our knowledge. In principle, his insistence on dialectics brings forth the third term as being the result of the dialectic and its product, relinquishing the binarism of the two in favor of a tripartite schema. Comprehending the notion of the third term proves to be central in understanding Lefebvre’s work. By this approach, Lefebvre tries to link dialectics to social material reality in and with the space. He supplements the space with history and time in traditional dialectics to seek the material contexts of the production of space in between three-dimensional dialectic of space. In this paper, I give a critique of formal logic and Hegelian dialectics first, and then I try to demonstrate the necessity of limitation of content by virtue of the “space”. Then, through proposing the theory of triadic dialectic, I illustrate “the production of space” on the basis of the three-dimensional dialectic of space. It is by this invention that Lefebvre is able to talk about the dialectics of space-time, to centralize the concept of space in the contemporary social political theory. 

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