Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre, born June 16 1901, died 1991 was a French Marxist sociologist, intellectual and philosopher.

Lefebvre was born in Hagetmau, Landes, France. He studied philosophy at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne), graduating in 1920. From 1930 - 1940 Lefebvre was a professor of philosophy; in 1940 he joined the French resistance. From 1944 - 1949 he was the director of Radiodiffusion Française, a French radio broadcaster in Toulouse. In 1958 he was expelled from PCF. In 1962 Lefebvre became professor of sociology at the University of Strasbourg.

His criticism of everyday life was among the major intellectual motives behind the founding of COBRA and, eventually, of the Situationist International. He wrote in French, English, and German.

Lefebvre died in 1991. In his obituary, Radical Philosophy magazine wrote:

the most prolific of French Marxist intellectuals, died during the night of 28-29 June 1991, less than a fortnight after his ninetieth birthday. During his long career, his work has gone in and out of fashion several times, and has influenced the development not only of philosophy but also of sociology, geography, political science and literary criticism. ^*

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1925 Positions d'attaque et de défense du nouveau mysticisme, Philosophies 5-6 (March). pp. 471-506. (Philosophy. Pt. 2 of the 'Philosophy of Consciousness' project on being, consciousness and identity originally proposed as a thesis topic to Leon Brunschvicg)
1934 with Norbert Guterman, Morceaux choisis de Karl Marx, Paris: NRF. (numerous reprintings).
1936 with Norbert Guterman, La Conscience mystifiée, Paris: Gallimard (new ed. Paris: Le Sycomore, 1979).
1937 Le nationalisme contre les nations, (Preface by Paul Nizan) Paris: Editions sociales internationales. (Reprinted, Paris: Méridiens-Klincksliek 1988, Collection Analyse institutionnelle, Présentation M. Trebitsch, Postface Henri Lefebvre).
1938 Hitler au pouvoir, bilan de cinq années de fascisme en Allemagne, Paris: Bureau d'Editions.
1938 with Norbert Guterman, Morceaux choisis de Hegel, Paris: Gallimard (3 reprintings 1938-*1939, reprinted Collection Idées, 2 Vols. 1969).
1938 with Norbert Guterman, Cahiers de Lénine sur la dialectique de Hegel , Paris: Gallimard.
1939a Nietzsche, Paris: Editions sociales internationales.
1946 L'Existentialisme, Paris: Editions du Sagittaire.
1947 Logique formelle, logique dialectique Vol. 1 of A la lumière du matérialisme dialectique Written in 1940-41 (2nd volume censored). Paris: Editions sociales
1947 Descartes, Paris: Editions Hier et Aujourd'hui.
1950b Knowledge and Social Criticism, Philosophic Thought in France and the USA Albany N.Y.: N.Y.; State University of New York Press. pp. 281-300. (2nd ed. 1968).
1958a Problèmes actuels du marxisme, Paris: Presses universitaires de France; 4th edition, 1970, Collection 'Initiation philosophique'
1958b (with Lucien Goldmann, Claude Roy, Tristan Tzara) Le romantisme révolutionnaire, Paris: La Nef.
1961 Critique de la vie quotidienne II, Fondements d'une sociologie de la quotidienneté, Paris: L'Arche
1963 La vallée de Campan - Etude de sociologie rurale, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France
1965a Métaphilosophie, foreword by Jean Wahl, Paris: Editions de Minuit, Collection 'Arguments'
1965b La Proclamation de la Commune, Paris: Gallimard, Collection Trente Journées qui ont fait la France
1968a Le Droit à la ville, Paris: Anthropos (2nd ed.) Paris: Ed. du Seuil, Collection Points
1968b La vie quotidienne dans le monde moderne, Paris: Gallimard, Collection Idées
1968c Dialectical Materialism, J. Sturrock trans., London: Cape. ISBN 0224615076
1968d Sociology of Marx, N. Guterman trans. of 1966c, New York: Pantheon.
1969 The Explosion: From Nanterre to the Summit, Paris: Monthly Review Press. Originally published 1968.
1970 La révolution urbaine Paris: Gallimard, Collection Idées
1971a Le manifeste différentialiste, Paris: Gallimard, Collection Idées
1971b Au-delà du structuralisme, Paris: Anthropos.
1974 with Leszek Kolakowski Evolution or Revolution, F. Elders ed. Reflexive Water: The Basic Concerns of Mankind, London: Souvenir. pp. 199-267. ISBN 0285647423
1975a Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, ou le royaume des ombres, Paris: Tournai, Casterman. Collection Synthèses contemporaines. ISBN 2203231092
1975b Le temps des méprises: Entretiens avec Claude Glayman, Paris: Stock. ISBN 2234001749
1978a with Catherine Régulier La révolution n'est plus ce qu'elle était, Paris: Editions Libres-Hallier (German trans. Munich, 1979). ISBN 2264008490
1978b Les contradictions de l'Etat moderne, La dialectique de l'Etat, Vol. 4 of 4 De 1'Etat, Paris: UGE, Collection '10/18'.
1980 La présence et l'absence, Paris: Casterman. ISBN 2203231726
1981a Critique de la vie quotidienne, III. De la modernité au modernisme (Pour une métaphilosophie du quotidien) Paris: L'Arche
1981b De la modernité au modernisme: pour une métaphilosophie du quotidien, Paris: L'Arche Collection 'Le sens de la marché'.
1985 with Catherine Régulier-Lefebvre, Le projet rythmanalytique Communications 41. pp. 191-199.
1988 Toward a Leftist Cultural Politics: Remarks Occasioned by the Centenary of Marx's Death, D. Reifman trans., L.Grossberg and C.Nelson eds. Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.; New York: Macmillan. pp. 75-88. ISBN 0252011082
1991a The Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1, John Moore trans., London: Verso. Originally published 1947. ISBN 0860913406
1991b with Patricia Latour and Francis Combes, Conversation avec Henri Lefebvre P. Latour and F. Combes eds., Paris: Messidor, Collection 'Libres propos'. ISBN 2209065186
1991c The Production of Space, N. Donaldson-Smith trans., Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Originally published 1974. ISBN 0631140484
1992 with Catherine Regulier-Lefebvre Eléments de rythmanalyse: Introduction à la connaissance des rythmes, preface by René Lorau, Paris: Ed. Syllepse, Collection Explorations et découvertes. ISBN 2907993119
1995 Introduction to Modernity: Twelve Preludes September 1959-May 1961, J. Moore, trans., London: Verso. Originally published 1962. ISBN 185984961X
1996 Writings on Cities, E. Kofman and E. Lebas trans. and eds., Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ISBN 0631191879

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