Lefebvre Resources

Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – a guide to his books in English, to a few untranslated ones, and major works on him – 11 December 2013, and updated periodically

Lefebvre on the State, posted 31st May 2011 – scanned one page outline of a Lefebvre presentation, plus a translation made by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden.

Henri Lefebvre recordings – three audio; one [now two] videos

Henri Lefebvre, The Survival of Capitalism – comparison of the French and English versions, and how an English reader can get a sense of the whole French book by moving between the English translation of The Survival of Capitalism and The Explosion. The French book reprints parts of the earlier book, but the English translations are nearly entirely distinct.

English version of the preface to the Korean translation of my book Understanding Henri Lefebvre

See also a few posts on Lefebvre:

Alexandre Kojève, Henri Lefebvre and the translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology – 20 July 2025 (updated from an earlier piece in March 2024)

Henri Lefebvre and the “Liste Otto” of Prohibited Books in Occupied France – 22 June 2025 (updated from an earlier piece in July 2023)

Henri Lefebvre’s Musset – the copy he gave to Georges Bataille – 5 June 2023

Editing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy – doing his endnotes properly – 12 June 2015

There are some other posts relating to Lefebvre here.

Lefebvre translations and editions (by Stuart Elden and others)

Henri Lefebvre, Key Writings, edited by Stuart Elden, Elizabeth Lebas and Eleonore Kofman, London/New York: Athlone/Continuum, 2003, xix + 284 pp. Reissued Editions 2006 and 2017. Now available from Bloomsbury.

Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life, translated by Stuart Elden and Gerald Moore, London/New York: Athlone/Continuum, 2004, xv + 112 pp. Reissued edition 2013. Now available from Bloomsbury. This edition, introduction and apparatus translated into Korean, Persian and Turkish

Henri Lefebvre, State, Space, World: Selected Essays, edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden, translated by Gerald Moore, Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, vii + 331pp.

Henri Lefebvre, Metaphilosophy, translated by David Fernbach, edited by Stuart Elden, London, Verso, 2016, 304 pp.

Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography, edited by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, translated by Robert Bononno with Matthew Dennis and Sîan Rosa Hunter Dodsworth, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.

I also wrote introductions to the English translations of Marxist Thought and the City, University of Minnesota Press, 2016 and Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche or the Realm of Shadows, Verso, 2020.

My 2004 book on Lefebvre has long been available as print-on-demand only, and keeps going up in price. Someone has uploaded a version here though…