ABSTRACT
This is a book about the ideas and intellectual practice of Henri Lefebvre. It is not a biography, but introducing both the man and the historical context of his life is important. Lefebvre would probably insist on the centrality of everyday life. His interest in the politics of the banal, and his opposition to the idea that politics should be an elitist activity, carried forward by a party vanguard, means that his own daily life, his politics, and his writing and teaching are all bound up with each other. Events, as Lefebvre once suggested, overturn theories and cause us to rethink our ideas.
