Henri Lefebvre

Biography

He studied the Philosophie with the Sorbonne, graduate in 1920. Of 1930 with 1940, he is professor of philosophy. In 1940, it joined the Résistance. Of 1944 with 1949, he is the director of French Radiodiffusion , a radio station located at Toulouse.

During years 1950, its evolution concerning the Marxist theory, in particular its rejection without concession of Stalinism, is worth to him to be excluded from the PCF in 1958.

In 1962, he becomes professor of Sociologie to the Université of Strasbourg, then with Université of Paris X-Nanterre, and to finish with the Institut of Town planning of Paris.

In its homage, the magazine Radical Philosophy will write:

most prolific of the French Marxist intellectuals, is deceased in the night of the 28 with the June 29th 1991, shortly after its 90e anniversiare. During its long career, its work was several times at the mode or not according to the periods, and influenced not only the development of philosophy, but also that of sociology, the Géographie, the Political sciences and the Critique arts person.

Works

The Marxist philosopher

The sociologist

The criticism of the daily life

In his development of “dialectic materialism”, the individual and the concrete praxis occupy a central place. Proposing an alternative social anthropology, Henri Lefebvre supported the need which the everyday life frees from the role that it revêt under capitalism, where it is only used to reproduce the characters imposed on the collective life by the dominant classes. The practice, with its unauthentic temporality because anhistoric, would anything else make only reproduce and to perpetuate the reports/ratios of domination. The everyday life is a kind of underground deposit in which conventions and the lies of the capacity form a deposit. There the barrier is which prevents with imagination and inventiveness to find the ways for a proper autonomous expression.

From there the privilege granted by Lefebvre to art, included/understood not as well in its autonomy as like means of an esthetic experiment able to show the unfounded character of the conventionality of the lifestyles of each day. The modern art lays down the conditions of the suppression of the everyday life. These theories refer to the experiment and the reflections of the surrealist movement, to which Lefebvre belonged in its youth. The trilogy " Critical of the life quotidienne" (1947, 1961,1981) thoroughly very this thought presents.

The criticism of the daily life is one of the inspirations of the Internationale situationnist, but is also found in those of Pierre Bourdieu for the reproduction of the reports/ratios of domination, and Bernard Stiegler for the release by Article

Critique of the daily life , 1947, the Arch
Critique of daily life II, Fondements of a sociology of the everyday life , 1961, the Arch
Critique of the daily life, III. Modernity with the modernism (For a métaphilosophie of the daily newspaper) , 1981, the Arch
Daily life in the modern world , 1968, Gallimard
Elements of rythmanalyse: Introduction to the knowledge of the rates/rhythms , 1992, with Catherine Regular-Lefebvre, foreword of Rene Lourau, Syllepse

Urban sociology

Thereafter, it dealt more particularly of the problems of town planning and the territory, presenting the city like the heart of the esthetic insurrection against the daily newspaper.

the valley of Campan - Study of rural sociology , 1963, PUF
the Pyrenees , 1966
Right to the city, I , 1968 (2° edition)
Right to the city, II - Space and political , 1972
the urban Revolution , 1970
the Production of space , 1974, Anthropos
It founds in 1970 with Anatole Kopp the review Espaces and companies.
Architecture and social sciences , 1970, seminar with Port Grimaud, Group of urban Sociology of Paris X-Nanterre, polygraphy by Léonie Sturge-Moore.

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