Understanding Henri Lefebvre (by Stuart Elden)

Lefebvre had an extraordinary life. It stretched from the very beginning of
the century until a decade before its end. It is no surprise that his French
biographer has accordingly called his work the adventure of the century!
Born eighteen years after Marx's death, and only six after Engels', Lefebvre
was a youth of sixteen at the Russian Revolution, in his late thirties at the
outbreak of World War Two, 60 at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, and
still writing at the fall of the Berlin Wall. He obtained his licence in philosophy
the year Althusser was born, and published his first articles two years
before Foucault's birth, yet outlived both of them.