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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 ...
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.
Henri Lefebvre’s influence on the theses is notable in the theses' preoccupation with everyday life, social space, and the Commune as a revolutionary festival. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The SI’s interpretation of the Commune is also clearly influenced by their own activist programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Lefebvre considered a city actively shaped by the people within it through participating in public life and appropriation of time and space in the city. By appropriation, Lefebvre meant that everyone should have the inalienable right to use any and all space within the city for his or her daily life.
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 ...
For Rendell, critical spatial practice is informed by Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life (1980, translated into English in 1984), [2] and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (1974, translated into English in 1991), [3] as well as the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, [4] but her definition aims to transpose the ...
For Lefebvre, these liberal principles play a role in shaping everyday life, often for the better. The liberal conception of the good life revolves around reciprocity, freedom, and fairness.
Everyday Life, co-ed., Yale French Studies, no. 73. Fall 1987. ... "Henri Lefebvre on the Situationist International" Interview conducted and translated 1983 by ...