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Michael Lowy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

Works by Michael Löwy

The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (1997) 60 copies, 1 review
Revolutions (2000) 49 copies
Les 100 mots du marxisme (2009) 19 copies, 1 review
Ideologias e Ciência Social (2010) 17 copies, 1 review
Ecosocialism or Barbarism (2006) 5 copies
Romantismo e Messianismo (1990) 5 copies
Che Guevara (1987) 4 copies
El marxismo olvidado (1978) 2 copies
The far right in Europe (2015) 2 copies
Isyan ve Melankoli (2016) 2 copies, 1 review
Capital contre nature (2003) 1 copy
Juifs hétérodoxes (2010) 1 copy

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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.
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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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