Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy | |
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Michael Löwy, 2010 | |
| Born | 6 May 1938 |
| Education | |
| Education | School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (PhD, 1964) University of Paris V (DrE, 1975) |
| Thesis | Révolution communiste et auto-émancipation du prolétariat dans l’œuvre du jeune Marx (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucien Goldmann |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Western Marxism |
| Institutions | University of Paris VIII |
| Doctoral students | Enzo 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.