An Analysis Of Lefebvre’s Critical Theory Of Everyday Life

In today’s society with the rapid development of science and technology,the everyday life of an individual is changing dramatically,which happens in every field related to people and even involves the spiritual and cultural needs of individuals.Therefore,for individuals in modern society,the problems of everyday life are becoming more and more important,and the related philosophical research is becoming more and more valuable.Henry Lefebvre is the forerunner of the western study on the criticism of everyday life.The study on the criticism of everyday life runs through his research career,and it is also the most core clue and the most outstanding achievement among them.This paper selects The Critical of Everyday Life(three volumes),his latest masterpiece,as the textual basis,and takes the time line of social and historical evolution as the logical progression to reorganize the development of this work of daily critical theory spanning more than 30 years.Firstly,through the exploration of Lefebvre’s early works,this paper comprehensively and concretely explains the philosophical foundation of the formation of Lefebvre’s critical theory of everyday life,and presents a number of philosophical thoughts that lay the foundation for this theory,among which Lefebvre’s theory of alienation and dialectics are the main ideas.Second,for each s time background and real everyday life scene for witness,to clarify the changes of the concept of "everyday life" and its change reason,finishing his ongoing self-criticism each phase of the achievements,including the new research direction and focus,and the way the revolution and the liberation road summary and reflection.Finally,it points out the important theoretical positive meaning and the limitation of the whole work.On the one hand,it greatly enriches and develops Marxist philosophy,broadens the scope of Marxist philosophy,and becomes the guide for western philosophy to turn to everyday life.On the other hand,he is too idealized,ignores the economic foundation of social change,and fails to discard the pessimistic core in his understanding of alienation.Therefore,his theoretical achievements end up in practice.According to the contents of the three volumes of The Critical of Everyday Life,this paper regards the whole research object as a developing theory,and analyzes the concept of "everyday life" in the corresponding development stage,the specific work of criticism of daily life and the road of liberation.Through the process of combining stage analysis with holistic evaluation,this paper aims to grasp the key nodes of the development of Lefebvre’s theory,and provide theoretical data support for grasping the critical theory of everyday life as a whole in the future through in-depth analysis of individual works.Although this theory with a utopia color,but in the critical study under the premise of absorption in his theory of modern social life and individual daily life extremely rich characteristics of interpretation,both help to enrich the Chinese philosophy about the philosophy of everyday life for deeper analysis and exploration,also helps to make Chinese and western contemporary Marxism collision and communication,academic research opens a new direction for the future.