Henri Lefebvre , French: ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991 was the French alienation, together with criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, as living as structuralism. In his prolific career, Lefebvre wrote more than sixty books together with three hundred articles. He founded or took factor in a founding of several intellectual and academic journals such(a) as Philosophies, La Revue Marxiste, Arguments, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Espaces et Sociétés.
Lefebvre was born in Hagetmau, Landes, France. He studied philosophy at the University of Paris the Sorbonne, graduating in 1920. By 1924 he was works with Paul Nizan, Norbert Guterman, Georges Friedmann, Georges Politzer, and Pierre Morhange in the Philosophies office seeking a "philosophical revolution". This brought them into contact with the Surrealists, Dadaists, and other groups, ago they moved towards the French Communist Party PCF.
Lefebvre joined the PCF in 1928 and became one of the near prominent French Marxist intellectuals during thequarter of the 20th century, previously joining the French resistance. From 1944 to 1949, he was the director of Radiodiffusion Française, a French radio broadcaster in Toulouse. Among his workings was a highly influential, anti-Stalinist text on dialectics called Dialectical Materialism 1940. Seven years later, Lefebvre published his number one volume of The Critique of Everyday Life. His early hit on method was applauded and borrowed centrally by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in Critique of Dialectical Reason 1960. During Lefebvre's thirty-year stint with the PCF, he was chosen to publish critical attacks on opposed theorists, particularly existentialists like Sartre and Lefebvre's former colleague Nizan, only to intentionally receive himself expelled from the party for his own heterodox theoretical and political opinions in the gradual 1950s. He then went from serving as a primary intellectual for the PCF to becoming one of France's most important critics of the PCF's politics e.g. immediately, the lack of an image on Algeria, and more generally, the partial apologism for and continuation of Stalinism and intellectual thought i.e. structuralism, particularly the name of Louis Althusser.
In 1961, Lefebvre became professor of sociology at the in 1965. He was one of the most respected professors, and he had influenced and analysed the May 1968 student revolt. Lefebvre made the concept of the right to the city in his 1968 book Le Droit à la ville the publication of the book predates the May 1968 revolts which took place in numerous French cities. following the publication of this book, Lefebvre wrote several influential works on cities, urbanism, and space, including The Production of Space 1974, which became one of the most influential and heavily cited works of urban theory. By the 1970s, Lefebvre had also published some of the number one critical statements on the work of post-structuralists, especially Michel Foucault. During the coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a impeach of. years he was involved in the editorial chain of Arguments, a New Left magazine which largely served to lets the French public to familiarize themselves with Central European revisionism.
Lefebvre died in 1991. In his obituary, Radical Philosophy magazine honored his long and complex career and influence:
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.