Michael Loewy

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Michael Löwy (born May 6, 1938 in São Paulo ) is a Marxist sociologist and philosopher .

Michael Löwy (2010)

Life and work

Jewish parents, which before the Austro-fascism and anti-Semitism of Vienna in 1934 after Brazil had fled, studied Lowy social sciences in São Paulo and settled for study reasons in 1961 after Paris about where he and philosophy and literature sociology. a. studied with Lucien Goldmann and received his doctorate in 1964 at the Sorbonne on the theory of the revolution of the young Karl Marx . During this time he also joined the Trotskyist movement and completed research stays at the universities of Haifa , Jerusalem , Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Manchester , before finally settling in Paris in 1969. Here he joined the Ligue Communiste and the 1973/74 Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR) that emerged from this , of which he is still a member. Löwy has worked as research director at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and at EHESS since 1977 . At the political level, solidarity work with social movements and the left in Latin America is one of Löwy's main topics. In 2005, Löwy was appointed to the University of Kassel for one year as part of the Franz Rosenzweig guest professorship .

Research topics

Initially, Löwy's research focused on the Marxist theory of revolution, the theory of permanent revolution and the historical and substantive development of Marxism in Latin America. This was followed by an intensive examination of the theology of liberation , the comparative study of Christian and Jewish messianisms in connection with Marxist and anarchist theory formation in the 20th century and the preoccupation with the relationship between Marxism and nationalism . Following authors like Ernst Bloch , Löwy attaches particular importance to working out the utopian dimension in Marxism.

Award

  • 2020: Walter Benjamin Prize

Fonts (selection)

  • Nationalism and marxism. Impetus for a necessary debate , Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-88022-199-5 (author of an article, the other essays are by Eric Hobsbawm , Tom Nairn and Régis Debray )
  • Marxism in Latin America 1905-1979 , Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-88332-081-1
  • (Ed., Together with Arno Münster) Reification and utopia. Ernst Bloch and Georg Lukács on their 100th birthday. Contributions to the international colloquium in Paris , Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-88048-080-X
  • Che Guevara , Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-88332-126-5
  • (Ed.) Theology of Liberation and Socialism , Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-88332-130-3
  • Revolution without limits. The theory of the permanent revolution , Frankfurt am Main, 1987 ISBN 3-88332-114-1
  • Marxism and Religion. The challenge of the theology of liberation , Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-88332-172-9
  • with Robert Sayre: Révolte et mélancolie: Le romanticisme à contre-courant de la modernité . Paris 1992, ISBN 2-228-88480-4
  • Redemption and Utopia. Jewish messianism and libertarian thinking , Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87956-215-6
  • Internationalism and nationalism. Critical essays on Marxism and the “national question” With a contribution by Enzo Traverso , Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-929008-26-2
  • The spirit of Porto Alegre and the strategy of the left , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-87975-973-1
  • The Theory of Revolution in Young Marx , Chicago 2005
  • "Biographical sketch" and "Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin", in: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.), Dealing with the destroyed Jewish legacy. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures 1999-2005 , Kassel 2004
  • A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe , Chicago 2015.
  • Eco-socialism. The radical alternative to ecological and capitalist catastrophe , Hamburg 2016.
  • Rosa Luxemburg. The spark of the revolution , Hamburg 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ International Walter Benjamin Society.
personal data
SURNAME Löwy, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Marxist sociologist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo