This is also a reading whose significance can be understood in the first ten pages rather than over the whole chapter. Over it's whole length, we might tend to get a little fuzzy headed, whilst if we read the first ten pages closely many insights can be cleaned. Not surprisingly given the complex nature of the subject, it is very carefully written, with lots of twists and turns and qualifications, so don't try to catch Lefebvre out, it is best to painstakingly go through the text (as we did in the session) step by step.
I tried to illustrate how, with reference to just those ten pages, many issues that crop up in the creation of a dissertation are addressed; ie that this text helps, not hinders, comprehension, and if that is your 'take home message' from this session we have done very well. If you are totally bamboozelled, then it's not so good, and you should try reading it again.
Lots of students have difficulty concentrating on a text, we might refer back to Eagelton and wonder if we should just blame you individually or the time of man in general. Whatever case, Lefebvre states right from the word go that our essential task is the production of knowledge, of understanding and presumably correcting the status quo, not lounging in it. If we imagine in the future a course called 'Uncritical Thinking' what horrors would lie around us?
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