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Henri Lefebvre (/ l ə ˈ f ɛ v r ə / lə-FEV-rə; French: [ɑ̃ʁi ləfɛvʁ]; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for furthering 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 ...
Henri Lefebvre dedicated a great deal of his philosophical writings to understanding the importance of (the production of) space in what he called the reproduction of social relations of production. This idea is the central argument in the book The Survival of Capitalism , written as a sort of prelude to La Production de l'espace (1974) ( The ...
Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life is a collection of essays by Marxist sociologist and urbanist philosopher Henri Lefebvre.The book outlines a method for analyzing the rhythms of urban spaces and the effects of those rhythms on the inhabitants of those spaces.
The Arguments group was a collection of French intellectuals, mostly ex-Communists, who were active in the late 1950s and early 1960s.The group, whose members had been shaped by their participation in the French Resistance and subsequent disillusionment with the French Communist Party, particularly after the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, sought to revitalize Marxism ...
Of particular importance is Michel Foucault’s essay on "Of Other Spaces", [5] in which the author proclaims the "age of space", and Henri Lefebvre's seminal work "La production de l'espace". [6] The latter provided the grounding for Marxist spatial theory on which David Harvey, Manuel Castells, Edward Soja, and others have built. Marxist ...
In Marxist theory, false consciousness is a term describing the ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies, concealing the exploitation and inequality intrinsic to the social relations between classes. [1]
The book draws on diverse Marxist traditions, including those of Paulo Freire, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Brian Becker, Peter McLaren, and Fredric Jameson, weaving their insights together to explore the revolutionary potentials in formal and informal education. [2] [3] [4]
This is a list of prominent figures who contributed to Marxist theory, ... Marxism, Anti-work: Henri Lefebvre [15] Hagetmau, France: Navarrenx, France: French