Henri Lefebvre’s "Total Men" Thoughts

Lefebvre is a mid-20th century France great Marxist theoretician. He devoted himself to criticism of dogmatic Marxism, Marx’s theory of alienation and dialectic theory applied to daily life in the abstract, which waged a victorious revolution of everyday life. Lefebvre’s guided by Hegel’s dialectic, Marx’s "liberation of people’s free and all-round" program, together with Nietzsche’s ideal of Superman, presents a combination of Hegel-Marx-Nietzsche’s "Trinity" as the premise of the "total man" dialectic. As with Marx, Lefebvre will also" total man" as he pursued humanistic core of the ultimate goal. But because Lefebvre on Marx’s thought of alienation of "abstract interpretation", leading to its generally human "dissident" abstract understanding adult source of alienation, the extension of Marx’s concept of alienation in the economy to people’s everyday life. Only from the overall perspective of thinking, in General for the purposes of the revolution, " total man" as a highly rational, objective, to reach the total elimination of alienation. Specifically, Lefebvre’s " total man" includes the following basic elements: " total man" on the dialectical relationship between man and nature to achieve the unity of subject-object; " total man" is fully and completely eliminates the "alienation" of people; " total man " is a free freedom of the individual in a group; " total man" goes beyond the aesthetic practice of everyday life has become a humanitarian. Lefebvre’s "total man" opens up Marx "total man"-on the theory of human emancipation into the critique of everyday life. His "total man" along the following objective Marxist people’s Liberation, depicts the overall significance of the revolution. However, Lefebvre will "total man" placed on how high, whose essential purpose was just to help of Marx’s language "patterns" against Stalin’s dogma, express their own subjective consciousness in the ideal of humanistic utopia, system of dialectical materialism and to criticize the Soviet Union and Germany fascism.