Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 2 keyword black one of the most important one of the most important contemporary philosophers of science The recent historiographical reaction against the centrality of the Revolution reflects the politics of those contemporary historians for whom progress and revolutionary democracy are dangerous concepts the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies Lefebvre takes as his starting point and guide the “trivial” details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity