Column Fei Lefebvre Critique Of Everyday Life Theory

If Lefebvre can be placed alongside Bloch,Adorno, Marcuse or Lukacs as a great theoretician of Critical Marxism',that is largely thanks to his theory -Critique of Everyday Life.In some place, this theory is well known, but little appreciated.'Man must be everyday,or he will not be at all'â‘ , Lefebvre uses this aphorism to show his starting point of everyday life,the critique of ereryday life would lead to the revolution of ereryday life.'In a sense, everyday life can be defined as'what is left over'after all those superior, distinct, structured activities have been singled out by analysis,and everyday life should be defined as a totality.'â‘¡And Henry Lefebvre's critique of everyday life had took up two arms:the first is to convince those Marxists of the value of the concept of alienation; the second is to demonstrate that those trivials should also not be exempted by those philosophical theoreticians.And Lefebvre's theory was built on the concept of "total man" and"alienation"."The theory of alienation and the 'total man'remain the driving force behind the critique of everyday life. They allow us to represent social development as a whole and to determine the direction in which it is gong.They also allow us to analyse this becoming, boring down within it for samples, penetrating its details and linking it with the overall system."â‘¢...