PHILOSOPHER

Henri Lefebvre

1901 - 1991

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Henri Lefebvre ( 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, existentialism, and structuralism. In his prolific career, Lefebvre wrote more than sixty books and three hundred articles. He founded or took part in the founding of several intellectual and academic journals such as Philosophies, La Revue Marxiste, Arguments, Socialisme ou Barbarie, and Espaces et Sociétés. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Lefebvre is the 311th most popular philosopher (down from 305th in 2019), the 839th most popular biography from France (down from 797th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Philosopher.

Henri Lefebvre is most famous for his books "Le Droit à la ville" and "La Production de l'espace". He was a French Marxist philosopher who focused on the relationship between space and the production of space.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Henri Lefebvre ranks 311 out of 1,267. Before him are Lev Shestov, Anacharsis, Chilon of Sparta, Synesius, Roscellinus, and Georges Sorel. After him are Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Félix Guattari, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Alfred Schütz, Abu Yusuf, and Mazdak.

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Among people born in 1901, Henri Lefebvre ranks 49. Before him are José Leandro Andrade, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Jascha Heifetz, Alfred Tarski, Jaroslav Seifert, and Milton H. Erickson. After him are Walter Hallstein, Eisaku Satō, José Nasazzi, Carl Barks, Nikolai Vatutin, and Lee Strasberg. Among people deceased in 1991, Henri Lefebvre ranks 28. Before him are Soichiro Honda, Oona O'Neill, Margot Fonteyn, David Lean, Max Frisch, and Arno Breker. After him are Michael Landon, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Rajiv Gandhi, Natalia Ginzburg, Jerzy Kosiński, and Wilhelm Kempff.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Lefebvre ranks 839 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise of Savoy (1476), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Henry, Count of Portugal (1066), Nicolas Fouquet (1615), and Antoine-Jean Gros (1771). After him are Henri Fantin-Latour (1836), Jacques Hadamard (1865), Pierre Loti (1850), Marina Vlady (1938), Ivo of Kermartin (1253), and Auguste Mariette (1821).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Henri Lefebvre ranks 42. Before him are Raymond Aron (1905), Bruno Latour (1947), Jacques Maritain (1882), Guy Debord (1931), Roscellinus (1050), and Georges Sorel (1847). After him are Félix Guattari (1930), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Louis Couturat (1868), René Girard (1923), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), and Étienne Cabet (1788).

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