Un’etica possibile nel quotidiano. La Comune di Parigi come sperimentazione utopica secondo H. Lefebvre

Abstract

Henri Lefebvre’s theoretical research has always been directed towards the growth of the possible dispersed in the everyday life, in order to provoke the spark able to transform the “grey” routinary behaviour. We propose here an excursus that brings out the concepts that link the historical event of the Commune, the notion of utopia and the claim of a radically different sociality. First, the concept of utopia and the distinction between the utopien’s project and the utopia of the utopians. The Lefebvrian utopia discovers possibilities of reality by its dialectical movement. Then the concept of the reproduction of social relationships, which emerges from the comparison between the critical analysis of everyday life, urban phenomena, economic growth and economism. Then the concept of the city as a planned space in which the social formation projects its internal and environmental relations onto the ground. And, conversely, the concept of the urban as the overcoming of capitalist contradictions that distinguish city and country. Linked to these, the concept of dwelling against the contemporary habitat model, which responds to economic growth without social development, i.e. quantitative growth without qualitative development. Dwelling corresponds to a way of understanding the human being that describes it starting from the expressive-evolutionary characters that distinguish it naturalistically and historically. From this constellation of concepts, the historical model of the Paris Commune is finally analysed.

Keywords

• lefebvre
• utopia
• dwelling
• everyday
• city
• commune