Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction - autonomous learning

Afterword:
The End of History or the “Total Man”?
Bitterness and relief at the end. We would be able to continue for
a lot longer still. We have so much more to say. We sometimes
seemed to let slip something essential. Why have we consecrated
the last discussion to utopia? Is it by our unanimous taste
for paradox and challenge? No, it’s rather because each one of
us knows that all projects, theoretical or otherwise, slumber
into boredom if they don’t comprise a utopian dimension.
It was, in the final analysis, a marvellous autumn.
—Henri Lefebvre, La révolution n’est plus ce qu’elle était
The “total man” was nothing less than the realization of Henri
Lefebvre’s metaphilosophy: a Dionysian who’s free and smart,
versatile and sensual, who’s peeled back the multiple layers of
capitalist mystification and commodity reification, and who
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