Henri Lefebvre

History

Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectical materialism, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism. In his prolific career, Lefebvre wrote more than sixty books and three hundred articles. He founded or took part in the founding of several intellectual and academic journals such as Philosophies, La Revue Marxiste, Arguments, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Espaces et Sociétés.

Movies

Right  to the city
Writer
Lefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli
Philosophers - Debates and Dialogues: Leszek Kolakowski and Henri Lefebvre
Himself
Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski and French thinker Henri Lefebvre (both former Communist Party members) debate the ongoing significance of Marxism and the concept of alienation—while at the same time struggling to define what a future, post-capitalist society might hold.