Angus Cameron has some thoughts on one of Lefebvre’s little-known essays, ‘The Metamorphoses of the Devil’, which appeared in An Introduction to Modernity (now available for very little in the Verso Radical Thinkers series).

In a very entertaining essay first published in French in the 1960s, Henri Lefebvre outlined a project for a Marxist history of the devil.  Although as far as I am aware he never got round to writing the book-length version – to be called The Metamorphoses of the Devil – the chapter in his Introduction to Modernity is still a significant contrbution to understanding the meaning of this curious entity.  Among its more provocative conclusions is that (following two leading French theologians), “Apparently God is dead, but the devil is still alive” (p.62). [continue here…]