Henri Lefebvre's Criticism of Symbol Consumption Alienation in the Context of Everyday Life

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10.2991/icsehr-17.2017.56How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Lefebvre; Consumption Alienation; Everyday Life; Symbolic Consumption

Abstract

Lefebvre believes that the phenomenons of alienation are not disappeared in modern times, but develops more new patterns. Capitalism is a comprehensive alienation of life, which is most vividly reflected in the consumption field. At the same time, consumption alienation has transcended labor alienation and become the main performance of alienation in the modern world. The critique of consumption alienation based on the context of everyday life opens up a critical perspective of the symbolic consumption alienation, thus creating a new perspective for the criticism of consumption alienation. Faced with the social reality of controlled consumption by the symbol, Lefebvre seeks to change through cultural revolution, but he arbitrarily abandoned the classical Marxist criticism of capitalist social and economic politics, and finally the transformation of everyday life can only be reduced to a fantasy.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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