Michael Löwy
Author of Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
About the Author
Michael Lowy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
Works by Michael Löwy
Redemption and Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe (Radical Thinkers) (1988) 71 copies
Morning Star: surrealism, marxism, anarchism, situationism, utopia (Surrealist Revolution Series) (2001) 50 copies, 1 review
The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent Revolution (1981) 44 copies
The Marxism of Che Guevara: Philosophy, Economics, Revolutionary Warfare (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series) (1973) 30 copies
On Changing the World: Essays in Marxist Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin (1992) 22 copies
El marxismo en America Latina. Antologia, desde 1909 hasta nuestros dias (Spanish Edition) (1980) 18 copies
Dialectica y Revolucion. Ensayos de Sociologia E Historia del Marxismo (Spanish Edition) (1983) 6 copies
Marxism and liberation theology 3 copies
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) (2019) 2 copies
Walter Benjamin: aviso de incêndio: Uma leitura das teses "Sobre o conceito de história" (Coleção Marxismo e Literatura) (Portuguese Edition) (2015) 2 copies
La pensée de Che Guevara (62) 2 copies
DIALECTIQUE ET REVOLUTION 1 copy
Redenção e Utopia 1 copy
Walter Benjamin. Avís d'incendi: Una lectura de les tesis "Sobre el concepte d'història" (CLASSICS FLANEUR) (2022) 1 copy
Sobre El Metodo Marxista 1 copy
Segnalatore d’incendio. Una lettura delle tesi Sul concetto di storia di Walter Benjamin (2022) 1 copy
Internationalismus und Nationalismus: Kritische Essays zu Marxismus und "nationaler Frage" (1998) 1 copy
On Changing the World: Essays in Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin (2016) 1 copy
Redención y utopía: El judaísmo libertario en Europa Central. Un estudio de afinidad electiva 1 copy, 1 review
Écosocialisme 1 copy
Marxs, esse desconhecido 1 copy
Redemption & Utopia: Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe. A study in elective affinity 1 copy
Ecologia e socialismo 1 copy
Cristianismo da libertação e marxismo: de 1960 a nossos dias - História do Marxismo no Brasil 6 1 copy
Marxismo hoje 1 copy
Para uma sociologia dos intelectuais revolucionários: A evolução política de Lucács (1909-1929) 1 copy
Romantismo E Política 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Löwy, Michael
- Legal name
- Löwy, Michel
- Other names
- Rossi, Carlos (Pseudonyme)
Löwy, Michel - Birthdate
- 1938-05-06
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Université de Paris V (Doctorat d'état, Philosophie, 19 75)
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (Doctorat de 3e cycle, Philosophie, Thèse 'La Théorie de la Révolution chez le jeune Marx', 19 64)
Université de São Paulo (Licence, Sciences sociales, 1960) - Occupations
- sociologist
philosopher - Organizations
- Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS (Professeur, 19 81 l 20 00)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Chercheur, 19 78, Directeur de recherches, 19 87 l 20 03)
Université de Paris 8, Vincennes (Chargé de cours, 19 69 l 19 78)
Université de Tel-Aviv (Enseignant, Histoire des idées politiques
Université de São José do Rio Preto (Enseignant, Sociologie, 19 60 l 19 61)
Université de Manchester (Assistant, 19 68 l 19 69) - Awards and honors
- Médaille d'argent du CNRS (1994)
Médaille du Mérite International, Université de Vera Cruz, Méxique (2014) - Relationships
- Cardoso, Fernando Henrique (Professeur)
Fernandes, Florestan (Professeur)
Cândido, António (Professeur)
Goldmann, Lucien (Ddirecteur de thèse) - Nationality
- Brésil
- Birthplace
- Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Map Location
- France
- Associated Place (for map)
- Sao Paolo, Brazil
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Reviews
Romantizm nedir? Her şeyden önce modern kapitalist toplumun yaşam tarzına karşı bir direnme biçimi. Romantizm bir muhalefet olarak çıkıyor karşımıza, öyle ki pazar ekonomisi ve endüstri devriminin yarattığı modern uygarlığa karşı koyuyor ve bunu da şiir, sanat, siyaset ve felsefeyle direnerek yapıyor. Hayal gücünün akla üstün olduğu bu büyük reddediş, yeni bir insan toplumu biçiminin aranışı aynı zamanda.
On dokuzuncu yüzyıldan gelen romantizm algısı, show more karşıt görüşlü düşünürler arasında da, Mayıs 68 hareketinde de ortaya çıkıyor ve zamana ayak diremeye devam ediyor. Bugün dahi parçalarını şehirlerde, direnişlerde görebileceğimiz bir umut olarak beliriveriyor.
Nihayetinde geçmiş zamanın anısı, gelecek zaman için yürütülen mücadelede silah olarak kullanılacaktır. show less
On dokuzuncu yüzyıldan gelen romantizm algısı, show more karşıt görüşlü düşünürler arasında da, Mayıs 68 hareketinde de ortaya çıkıyor ve zamana ayak diremeye devam ediyor. Bugün dahi parçalarını şehirlerde, direnişlerde görebileceğimiz bir umut olarak beliriveriyor.
Nihayetinde geçmiş zamanın anısı, gelecek zaman için yürütülen mücadelede silah olarak kullanılacaktır. show less
Redención y utopía: El judaísmo libertario en Europa Central. Un estudio de afinidad electiva by Michael Löwy
Interesante libro para ver algo que suele pasarse por alto: las concepciones religiosas de un mundo mejor tienen potencial revolucionario, sobre todo si se las despoja de la falopa mágica y segregacionista.
Benjamin's Theses themselves are of course excellent, and Lowy's explanations were largely positive aids to my understanding - I came away from this book (probably my fifth reading Begriff der Geschichte) pretty confident that I finally understand almost everything Benjamin is saying here. For that I have to be grateful. That said, I didn't need most of Lowy's departures from the text itself, almost all of which I found short-sighted, undercooked, and distracting -- especially the frequent show more reference to Latin American events which were never explained in more than a page, and which struck me as basically gratuitous attempts to "update" a timeless text for modern concerns. A good companion to a text like this should either stick to pure interpretation, or provide enough analysis to serve as a work of philosophy in itself; this book is serviceable enough in the first role (if not especially deep) that it's always baffling when Lowy switches to half-assed, almost embarrassed criticism of his own. All in all this is more useful as a word-by-word gloss on the essay than as a source of new ideas. show less
This book advances no unique argument. Much of its central thesis had already been developed by Franz Jakubowski in his doctoral dissertation. Even if one prefers a more modern formulation, later Marxists made the same arguments with greater clarity and force (e.g., Hal Draper).
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