Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Renaud Lariagon and Simon Le Roulley eds. Henri Lefebvre: Actualités – Éditions Grevis, December 2025

Renaud Lariagon and Simon Le Roulley eds. Henri Lefebvre: Actualités – Éditions Grevis, December 2025 Henri Lefebvre : actualités défend l’actualisation de la pensée de Lefebvre (1901-1991) à travers des contributions d’auteurs d’Amérique latine et d’Europe. Ce recueil met en … Continue reading

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Hegel 13/13 – Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought series

The seminars at the Columbia University Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought organised by Bernard Harcourt continue with Hegel 13/13. I was able to go to several of the Marx 13/13 series earlier this year, and the larger events are usually … Continue reading

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Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945-1975 – University of Chicago Press, January 2026

Ryan L. Allen, Adventures in the Archaic: Primitivism, Degrowth, and the French Social Sciences, 1945-1975 – University of Chicago Press, January 2026 Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 … Continue reading

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Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

This is a revised, expanded and more fully referenced version of a post from March 2024. There is a Spanish translation of the earlier version here. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in … Continue reading

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Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025

Michael Kelly, Modern French Marxism, expanded and revised 2nd edition, Brill (Historical Materialism series), May 2025 Books in this series published in paperback with Haymarket 12 months later. Marxist thought was a powerful force in French political and intellectual life … Continue reading

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Six Months of ‘Sunday Histories’ – weekly short essays on Progressive Geographies

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to try to post a short essay each week on Progressive Geographies. I felt the blog had become too much of a noticeboard, sharing information about interesting books, talks or shorter pieces by … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre and the “Liste Otto” of Prohibited Books in Occupied France

The “Liste Otto” was named after Otto Abetz, German ambassador to France under the Occupation, from August 1940 until the Liberation. The list indicated which books had to be removed from sale, with existing copies destroyed, after the German invasion … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme industriel et socialisme paysan/Industrial Socialism and Peasant Socialism”, Actuel Marx, 2023, eds. Claire Revol and Armelle Lefebvre

I missed this when published a couple of years ago – a previously unpublished lecture by Henri Lefebvre, taken from his archives, which have been deposited at IMEC and are being catalogued – see the initial notice. Henri Lefebvre, “Socialisme … Continue reading

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Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, “Henri Lefebvre and the Lukács Question”, Progress in Political Economy; Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, Historical Materialism (open access)

Adam David Morton and I have a short piece at the Progress in Political Economy site – “Henri Lefebvre and the Lukács Question“ It connects to the translation and introduction in Historical Materialism of an interview Lefebvre conducted with Patrick … Continue reading

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Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism (open access)

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism. Now available online first and open access. This developed out of the work that went into Henri … Continue reading

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