Michael Löwy

Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy, 2010
Born (1938-05-06) 6 May 1938
Education
EducationSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (PhD, 1964)
University of Paris V (DrE, 1975)
ThesisRévolution communiste et auto-émancipation du prolétariat dans l’œuvre du jeune Marx (1964)
Doctoral advisorLucien Goldmann
Philosophical work
Era20th-/21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Western Marxism
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris VIII
Doctoral studentsEnzo Traverso

Michael Löwy (born 6 May 1938) is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin, José Carlos Mariátegui, Lucien Goldmann and Franz Kafka, he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 1994.