Lefebvre, Hermeneutics, and Place

Abstract

Though not a hermeneutical thinker himself, Henri Lefebvre offers an important challenge to thinking the hermeneutics of place with his 1974 Production of Space dominating many discussions of spatiality in recent decades. I frst offer an overview of Lefebvre’s projects and then focus on his relationship to the thinking of space and dwelling in Martin Heidegger. Lastly I turn to his account of the urbanization of the world and its resonances with those thinking an event that would create another world from within the everyday collisions of neoliberal spaces and the possibilities of moving beyond them.