Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist best known for his critique of everyday life and for developing the concepts of the right to the city and the social production of space. Across a career of more than sixty books and three hundred articles he also wrote on dialectical materialism and alienation, and criticized Stalinism, existentialism and structuralism. He founded or helped found several intellectual journals, including Philosophies, La Revue Marxiste, Arguments and Espaces et Societes.
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birth_date = 16 June 1901
Lead, subfield political-theory
was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist
Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
Without revolutionizing everyday life, capitalism would continue to diminish the quality of everyday life, and inhibit real self-expression.
Associated With: Paris-Sorbonne University, Article text
He studied philosophy at the Aix-Marseille University and the University of Paris (the Sorbonne), graduating with a diplôme d'études supérieures (roughly equivalent to an MA) in 1920.
Shaped By: Classical Marxism, Lead, Classical Marxism
was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist
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