Henri Lefebvre Quotes on Life
Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist whose work shaped the critical theory of everyday life and the philosophy of urban space. This page collects quotes attributed to Henri Lefebvre on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Henri Lefebvre:
“Everyday life is the supreme court where wisdom, knowledge and power are brought to judgment.”
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Attributed to Henri Lefebvre:
“The most extraordinary things are also the most everyday.”
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“The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure”
Henri Lefèbvre (2000) Everyday Life in the Modern World Second Revised Edition. p. 52 -
“Henri Lefèbvre (2000) Everyday Life in the Modern World Second Revised Edition. p. 52”
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure -
“The 'meaning' of life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself. It is within it, and there is nothing beyond that. 'Meaning' cannot spill over from being; it is the direction, the movement of being, and nothing more. The 'meaning' of a proletarian's life is to be found in that life itself: in its despair, or conversely in its movement towards freedom , if the proletarian participates in the life of the proletariat, and if that life involves continuous, day-to-day action (trade-union, political...).”
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