Henri Lefebvre Philosopher

Henri Lefebvre (French: [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 dialectics, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism, existentialism, and structuralism. In his prolific career, Lefebvre wrote more than sixty books and three hundred articles.

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Birth date	June 16, 1901
Birth place	Hagetmau
Date of death	June 29, 1991
Place of death	Navarrenx
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Everyday life

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influenced	Guy Debord
influenced by	Karl Marx
notable idea	Rhythmanalysis
philosophical school	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Western Marxism
region	Western philosophy