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Henri Lefebvre ( / ləˈfɛvrə / lə-FEV-rə, French: [ɑ̃ʁi ləfɛvʁ]; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering 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 ...
(1901–91) French*Marxistphilosopher and sociologist. Lefebvre published 70 books in his lifetime on an incredibly wide array of topics, and is generally regarded as one of the great theoreticians of the 20th century.
Nov 21, 2023 · Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991) was a French sociologist and theorist known for his work on social space, everyday life, the right to the city, and other topics bridging urban studies, spatial theory, and Marxist philosophy.
Oct 15, 2020 · Henri Lefebvre is now established as one of the most important social theorists of the 20th century. Over a long life (b. 1901–d. 1991) he wrote and published prodigiously more than sixty books and several hundred articles on a range of issues and themes.
This chapter provides a detailed and systematic analysis of Henri Lefebvre’s oeuvre, focusing on how he developed his theory of the production of space through his earlier work on everyday life and the urban.
Jul 15, 2014 · The production of space. by. Henri Lefebvre. Publication date. 1991. Publisher. Blackwell. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Henri Lefebvre was a Marxist and Existentialist philosopher (see Lefebvre 1946) , a sociologist of urban and rural life and a theorist of the State, of international flows of capital and of social space.
Rediscovered in the 1990’s, Lefebvre’s theory opened up new ways of understanding of processes of urbanization, their conditions and consequences at any scale of social reality: from the practices of everyday life, through the urban scale, to the global flows of people, capital, information and ideas.
Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space. Introduction. In this chapter, I develop a comprehensive overview of key theoretical concepts and ideas which guided Lefebvre’s thinking over the course of his long career, as well as foreground how I will use these in my empirical application and research.
Jul 14, 2011 · This book frames a contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. The book explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical foundations of Lefebvre’s oeuvre, especially his direct involvement in the fields of urban development, planning, and architecture. Countering the prevailing view, which ...
