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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Lefebvre has received more than 966,570 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Lefebvre is the 305th most popular philosopher (up from 324th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from France (up from 876th 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 305 out of 1,267. Before him are Franz Brentano, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Ramana Maharshi, Sebastian Brant, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and Abu Yusuf. After him are Robert Nozick, Hwang Jini, Antoine Arnauld, Giovanni Gentile, Félix Guattari, and Carl Gustav Hempel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Henri Lefebvre ranks 43. Before him are Jaroslav Seifert, Milton H. Erickson, Margaret Mead, Robert Bresson, Jascha Heifetz, and Nikolai Vatutin. After him are Vincent du Vigneaud, Alfred Tarski, José Nasazzi, Arthur Liebehenschel, Carl Barks, and Eisaku Satō. Among people deceased in 1991, Henri Lefebvre ranks 26. Before him are Michael Landon, Marcel Lefebvre, Rajiv Gandhi, Oona O'Neill, Arno Breker, and Margot Fonteyn. After him are David Lean, Natalia Ginzburg, Max Frisch, Gunnar Gren, Ragnar Granit, and Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Lefebvre ranks 797 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert Curthose (1054), Gaston Doumergue (1863), Agnès Sorel (1422), Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (1162), Marie de France (1101), and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741). After him are Marcel Carné (1906), Vincent Cassel (1966), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), Maurice Blanchot (1907), Bernard Gui (1261), and Saint Remigius (437).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Henri Lefebvre ranks 42. Before him are Raymond Aron (1905), Jacques Maritain (1882), François Fénelon (1651), Bruno Latour (1947), Roscellinus (1050), and Sebastian Brant (1458). After him are Antoine Arnauld (1612), Félix Guattari (1930), Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), Edgar Morin (1921), Maurice Halbwachs (1877), and René Girard (1923).

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