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Journal of Beijing Normal University(Social Sciences) ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (3): 19-29.

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Boundaries and Conscious Bodies in the Production of Social Space:An Interpretation of Lefebvre's The Production of Space

ZHANG Yibing   

  1. Center for Studies of Marxist Social Theory,School of Philosophy,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China
  • Online:2025-05-25 Published:2025-09-03

Abstract: Lefebvre explicitly takes labor space as the basis of social space.In this way,the core of spatial production practice would also be labor activities and its relational field.Moreover,the demarcation and marking of social space originate from human labor practice,and the spatial demarcation and marking are an extension of the center of the human body to the outside.The spatial presence of the body resides in the consciousness,unconsciousness and rhythm of its own movement,which is an important factor in the generation of the body's self and the occurrence of spatial practices,but the formation and change of the body's self cannot be “reduced” to a subjective discourse,and is determined by historical spatial practices.

Key words: Lefebvre, The Production of Space, bodies, self-consciousness and unconsciousness, rhythm

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