When he reached his late fifties, Henri Lefebvre's life took a remarkable turn: in 1958, he was expelled from the French Communist Party, after thirty years having been a committed member. He then became close to the Situationists, and finally was chosen as a mentor by the French students who launched the rebellion movement in 1968 at the University of Nanterre, where he had been appointed in 1965. Naturally, his thought followed a similar pattern. His kind of Marxism became more (...) - Sociologie – Nouvel article. (shrink)