A reading of the relationship between quantity and quality in dialectical logic from Henri Lefebvre

Abstract

In this article, I interpret the relationship between the categories of quantity and quality from the work of the dialectical materialism of Henri Lefebvre. For this, after a brief introduction of the Biobibliography of Henri Lefebvre, this relationship is reconstructed from the book Formal Logic/ Dialectical Logic as the first volume of a project soon abandoned in circumstances that were explained. As a second step, I explore the relationship between the categories of quantity and quality, on the one hand, and the concept of open totality in the work of the French author, on the other hand. At the end of the essay I indicate how the mediations put throughout the work can become productive for future interpretations of historiographical materials.