Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

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

Posted on May 22, 2025 by stuartelden

I missed this when published a couple of years ago – a previously unpublished lecture by Henri Lefebvre, taken from his archives, which have been deposited at IMEC and are being catalogued – see the initial notice.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

Posted on March 11, 2025 by stuartelden

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)

Posted on March 5, 2025 by stuartelden

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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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 26: Benveniste’s late publications; Sunday Histories; beginning archival work in the United States

Posted on February 14, 2025 by stuartelden

Since the last update in December, I’ve been making some good progress on this project. The focus has mainly been on Benveniste’s work in the 1960s. But, as ever, I’ve found myself backtracking to earlier parts of his career and seeing some potentially … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024

Posted on May 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Henri Lefebvre, Critique de la vie quotidienne (complete edition; three volumes in one) – L’Arche, April 2024 In English translation, Verso have long had a complete edition in a single volume, but I think this is the first complete edition … Continue reading →

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Mathieu Dejean, Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse – trans. David Fernbach, Verso blog 

Posted on March 31, 2024 by stuartelden

Mathieu Dejean, Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse – trans. David Fernbach, Verso blog (open access) In 1958, during the insurrectionary events that preceded General de Gaulle’s return to power, 57-year-old Henri Lefebvre faced two ‘comrades’ from the French Communist Party in … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 18: further work on Benveniste and more archives in Paris

Posted on March 18, 2024 by stuartelden

In the last update on this project, I talked about the Paris archival work I’d done in early February. There were a few loose ends of references when I got back from Paris, most of which I was able to resolve … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 5, 2024 by stuartelden

A revised and expanded version of this post is here as part of the Sunday histories series. Alexandre Kojève’s seminars on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, given at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the years before the Second World War, … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 17: Contextualising Benveniste

Posted on February 12, 2024 by stuartelden

In my chapter on Émile Benveniste from roughly 1934 to 1949, I’ve been finding all sorts of interesting things to explore. Looking for some of Benveniste’s early publications in the Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris led me to do … Continue reading →

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Some of my highlights on Progressive Geographies in 2023

Posted on January 1, 2024 by stuartelden

I didn’t publish much this past year – The Archaeology of Foucault has a 2023 date but was officially published in December 2022, and the special issue of Theory, Culture and Society on Foucault was completed some time before. I … Continue reading →

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