Michael Löwy
Biographic Data
| ID | 75934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Löwy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Löwy |
| SIGNATURE | LÖWY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5679-0927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 357 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 319 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 354 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Écocide et humanicide
Le rapport publié en janvier 2025 par l’Institute and Faculty of Actuaries de l’université d’Exeter est passé presque inaperçu : les médias n’en ont retenu que la chute prévisible du PIB mondial. Michael Löwy, lui, s’arrête sur l’autre chiffre – celui qui ne fait pas la une. Quatre milliards de morts humains potentiels d’ici 2050, dans le scénario du pire. De ce vertige, il tire une proposition conceptuelle : si l’écocide désigne la destruction d…
De Karl Marx à l’Eco-marxisme
Marx's contribution to ecosocialism, or to eco-Marxism, is not limited to his texts on the relationship with nature - which admittedly remain relatively marginal in his work: there is not a single book, article or book chapter by Marx or Engels dedicated to the ecological crisis. This is entirely understandable, given that capitalist destruction of the environment was just beginning, and not at all as serious as it is today. There are arguments i…
A obra de Daniel Bensaïd é um tesouro
Nesta entrevista, Michael Löwy comenta sobre a obra e a trajetória de Daniel Bensaïd (1946-2010), intelectual francês de quem foi companheiro de militância e amigo. Inicialmente, ele aborda seu contato inicial com Bensaïd e a relação que se construiu entre ambos ao longo dos anos. Em seguida, discute as contribuições teóricas de Bensaïd, destacando as noções de aposta melancólica e profecia condicional. Discute ainda o lugar do Brasil na reflexão…
Le romantisme revolutionnaire au 20 siecle. Ernst Bloch, surréalisme, situationnisme, ecosocialisme
L’article traite du romantisme révolutionnaire en tant que vision du monde qui transcende le mouvement littéraire du XIXe siècle, en proposant une critique culturelle et politique de la modernité capitaliste. Ce romantisme s’oppose à l’utilitarisme et à la rationalisation, en défendant des valeurs qualitatives et communautaires. Son expression au XXe siècle se retrouve dans des figures et des mouvements tels qu’Ernst Bloch, le surréalisme, le…
A crítica do progresso em Adorno
True to his fragmentary method, Adorno does not presente a systematic critique of progress in his writings. He did, however, outline an admirable attempt at a dialectical problematization of the notion of progress, beyond bourgeois myths and reactionary nostalgia
Claudia Touris, La constelacion tercermundista. Catolicismo y cultura politica en al Argentina 1955-1976
Cet ouvrage, produit d’une thèse de doctorat, est une analyse précise et documentée d’un mouvement contestataire dans le catholicisme argentin, du coup d’État militaire qui a renversé le régime du général Juan Perón en 1955 jusqu’à celui de 1976 — sous l’égide de la traditionnelle alliance autoritaire entre la croix et l’épée.Perón, et surtout sa charismatique épouse Evita, ont essayé de promouvoir un « christianisme péroniste », mais l’Église ca…
Le Bund, une expérience qui ouvre des pistes
Les droits de la Terre-Mère, Nature, Pachamama et buen vivir
La Nature contre le Capital , Moins ! La décroissance est une philosophie , Marx and the Anthropocene , Kōhei Saitō
Franz Kafka and Antisemitism
Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial (1915) is open to many interpretations. One aspect, however, which has not been taken sufficiently into account, is its relation to the antisemitic trials of his times, where Jews were accused of treason or ‘ritual murder’: the trials of Tisza (Austro-Hungary, 1882, in what is now Hungary), Dreyfus (France, 1894–9), Hilsner (Austro-Hungary, 1899–1900, in what is now the Czech Republic), and Beiliss (Imperial Russia, …
The Ecological Rift in the Anthropocene
In an interview with Brazilian magazine Margem Esquerda, John Bellamy Foster shares with Fabio Querido, Maria Orlanda Pinassi, and Michael Löwy the formative experiences that contributed to his work as a young activist and, later, a preeminent scholar of ecological Marxism. The interview concludes with a message to the ecological left in Brazil and elsewhere: "Whatever solutions there are to the present planetary crisis must, in historical-materi…
De Karl Marx à l’écomarxisme
La contribution de Marx à l’écosocialisme, ou, si l’on veut, à l’écomarxisme, ne se limite pas à ses textes sur le rapport à la nature, qui restent relativement marginaux dans son œuvre : il n’y a pas un seul livre, ou article, ou chapitre de livre, de Marx (ou Engels), dédié à la crise écologique. Ce qui est tout à fait compréhensible, considérant que la destruction capitaliste de l’environnement n’en était qu’à ses premières manifestations, et …
Les luttes socio-écologiques en Amérique latine
Dans cet entretien, Sabrina Fernandes revient sur son parcours, entre découverte du marxisme, engagement écosocialiste et efforts de transmission d’armes critiques pour penser une transition radicale et une résistance au capitalisme vert. Elle dresse un état des forces en présence sur le front écosocial en Amérique du Sud, dont la composition mêle à l’écomarxisme les luttes indigènes, les combats écoféministes, les enjeux fonciers et alimentaires…
Ecologia, Sindicalismo e Direito do Trabalho
Apresentação do Dossiê "Ecologia, Sindicalismo e Direito do Trabalho". O texto propõe trazer elementos na articulação entre ecologia, sindicalismo e direito do trabalho. Passa pelo desvelar dos traços ecológicos desde o irromper dos conflitos de classe na modernidade capitalista, assumindo a questão ambiental lugar central das demandas sindicais e a imprescindibilidade de reconhecermos o modo desigual como recaem os efeitos da dimensão climática …
Éco-socialisme ou barbarie selon André Gorz. Un hommage
Cet article, toujours abondamment cité à travers le monde, sous le titre « L’idéologie sociale de la bagnole » est initialement paru dans le numéro 6 de la revue Le Sauvage de septembre-octobre 1973, sous le titre « Mettez du socialisme dans votre moteur » et sous la plume de Michel Bosquet, autre alias d’André Gorz. Pour notre parrain, alors, tant que la voiture sera considérée comme une vache sacrée, l’espace urbain sera floué. Il nous invite à…
For the 50th Anniversary of Latin American Perspective
Climate Crisis and Alienation
Ofensiva do capitalismo neoliberal contra a Mãe Terra
Vivemos uma ofensiva do capital, sob a forma neoliberal, contra os serviços públicos, os pobres, os trabalhadores, as mulheres, os indígenas e, enfim, contra a esmagadora maioria da população no Brasil, na América Latina e no mundo. Este artigo concentra-se na ofensiva do capitalismo neoliberal contra a "Mãe Terra", revelando-se como uma verdadeira guerra contra a natureza e a humanidade, cujo aspecto mais dramático é a mudança climática, uma que…
Affinités paradoxales. Max Weber et l’anarchisme
Che Lives! The Legacy of Che Guevara in World Politics
Max Weber y el anarquismo
En este artículo serán discutidos cuatro aspectos de la compleja relación de Max Weber con el anarquismo: 1) el profundo interés que manifiesta por algunas ideas y autores anarquistas, 2) el respeto que le inspira la Gesinnungsethik o “ética de la convicción” anarquista, a pesar de rechazarla políticamente, 3) el sentimiento profundamente antiautoritario de Weber, que surge y se relaciona con el conflicto personal que mantiene con el patriarcado,…
Nine Theses on Ecosocialist Degrowth
In nine theses, Michael Löwy elaborates on the central themes of ecosocialist degrowth. "The ecological crisis," he begins, "is already the most important social and political question of the twenty-first century.... The future of the planet, and thus of humanity, will be decided in the coming decades
A teoria marxista do partido
Este artigo examina as concepções de partido revolucionário entre alguns dos mais importantes pensadores marxistas do século XX, através de três questões essenciais inter-relacionadas: 1) os níveis de consciência de classe; 2) a relação do partido com as massas, em particular durante uma revolução; 3) a estrutura interna do partido. Em nossa visão, os autores escolhidos - Lênin, Rosa Luxemburgo, Gramsci, Lukács e Trótski - pertencem à mesma "corr…
Éco-Décalogue
L'auteur de ces notes ne se prend pas pour un nouveau Moïse et ne prétend pas avoir reçu cet Éco-décalogue de Jéhovah. Il s'agit simplement d'une tentative de répondre, avec une pointe d'ironie, en peu de signes, à la question que beaucoup se posent de nos jours : que faire face à la crise écologique et la catastrophe climatique
Édito
Bargain Justice in an Unjust World
That relatively few criminal cases in this country are resolved by full Perry Mason-style strials is fairly common knowledge. Most cases are settled by a guilty plea after some form of negotiation over the charge or sentence. But why? The standard explanation is case pressure: the enormous volume of criminal cases, to be processed with limited staff, time and resources. . . . But a large body of new empirical research now demands that we re-exami…
What is ecosocialism
The reigning capitalist system is bringing the planet's inhabitants a long list of irreparable calamities. Witness: exponential growth of air pollution in big cities and across rural landscapes; fo
Le concept d'affinité élective chez Max Weber
Le terme « affinité élective » (Wahlverwandtschaft) a une longue histoire, largement antérieure aux écrits de Max Weber. Il s'agit d'un itinéraire complexe qui va de l'alchimie à la littérature romantique (Goethe), et de celle-ci aux sciences sociales. Weber n'utilise le concept que trois fois dans L'Éthique protestante, mais il apparaît aussi dans d'autres écrits, dans la plupart des cas dans le domaine de la sociologie des religions. Weber ne l…
Conservadorismo e extrema-direita na Europa e no Brasil
Temos assistido, na Europa dos últimos anos, a um espetacular ascenso político e eleitoral de forças de extrema-direita, racistas, xenófobas, fascistas ou semifascistas. Um fenômeno que não pode ser unicamente explicado pela crise econômica, já que em dois dos países mais atingidos por ela, Portugal e Espanha, a extrema-direita é pouco presente no cenário político, enquanto tem um papel muito significativo em países que pouco sofreram com essa cr…
Georg Lukacs
Le capitalisme comme religion
Le fragment « Le capitalisme comme religion », redige par Walter Benjamin en 1921 – et reste inedit jusqu’aux annees 1985, quand il sera publie dans les Œuvres Completes posthumes, est l’un de ses textes les plus interessants, mais aussi les plus « hermetiques ». Inspire par les travaux de Max Weber – nommement cite – sur l’affinite elective entre L’ethique protestante et l’esprit du capitalisme, il va beaucoup plus loin que le sociologue : pour …
Everyday Disputes and Mediation in the United States
In a recent article in these pages Professor W.L.F. Felstiner (1974) made a substantial contribution to the literature on dispute processing by analyzing the role of avoidance as a means of ending disputes, and by correlating the ubiquity of this technique with differing forms of societal organization. In brief, his insight—richly developed in the article—is that the tendency to walk away from contentious situations is greater in “technologically…
From Marx to Ecosocialism
Marx, Engels, and Ecology
The following is a brief survey of Marx and Engels’ views on ecology, from the viewpoint of their relevance for 21th-century ecosocialism. While there are some serious limitations in the way both consider the “development of productive forces,” there are powerful insights in their discussion of the destructive consequences of capitalist expansion for the environment—an expansion that generates a disastrous metabolic rift in the exchanges between …
Capitalism as Religion
Benjamin's fragment 'Capitalism as Religion', written in 1921, was only published several decades after his death. Its aim is to show that capitalism is a cultic religion, without mercy or truce, leading humanity to the 'house of despair'. It is an astonishing document, directly based on Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but – in ways akin to Ernst Bloch or Erich Fromm – transforming Weber's 'value-free' analysis into a f…
A filosofia da história de Walter Benjamin
Marxism and Romanticism in the Work of José Carlos Mariátegui
Jose Carlos Mariaitegui is not only the most important and most inventive of the Latin American Marxists but a thinker whose work, in its power and originality, is of universal significance. His heretical Marxism has deep affinities with that of such important Western Marxist writers as Antonio Gramsci, Gyorgy Lukaics, and Walter Benjamin. At the heart of Mariateguist heterodoxy-of the specificity of his Marxist philosophical and political discou…
Le marxisme en amérique latine de José Carlos Mariategui aux zapatistes du Chiapas
José Carlos Mariagegui, the first major Latin American Marxist thinker, who died in 1939, considered socialism to be the sole alternative to the domination of Latin American by US imperialism. He dreamt of an Indo-American socialism which would not be the mere carbon-copy of precedents elsewhere; which, on the contrary, would be the heroic creation of the peoples of the continent. Because of the hegemony of Stalinism within the Latin American lef…
Marxism and Christianity in Latin America
Marxismo e cristianismo na América Latina
Figures of Romantic Anti-Capitalism
Redención y Utopía El judaísmo libertario en Europa Central Un estudio de afinidad electiva
la literatura rabínica), véase Herman L
Communism and Religion
Modern communism is traditionally understood as an atheist, secular, and profane movement, actively opposed to religion as well as any form of "idealism." The thought of José Carlos Mariátegui, one of the main founders of Latin American communism, has very little in common with this conventional image. Mariátegui had a heterodox attitude toward religion, as well as other subjects. Mariátegui does not venture a new definition of religion. However,…
Mística revolucionária
In this article an approximate profile of Mariategui s thoughts on the importance of religion in marxist philosophy is presented. His philosophy is quite distant from the orthodox Marxist doctrine on the religious question, where it is seen as the opium of the poor. Mariategui considers that socialism can also be under stood as religious from the point of view of values that transcend man. He points out that not all is pure reason and science, th…
The Socio-Religious Origins of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers Movement
The widespread protest against the impunity, five years after the event, of the military police responsible for the 1996 massacre of nineteen Brazilian landless peasants who were occupying a road in Eldorado dos Carajas has once again drawn the attention of international opinion to the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), which stubbornly pursues—despite the murders or massacres of its members by the capangas (agents of the big landowners) or t…
Les Sources françaises du christianisme de la libération au Brésil / The French Sources of Liberation Christianity in Brazil
La rénovation intellectuelle du catholicisme brésilien a été marquée par la pensée catholique française. Trois courants ont eu une influence notable: le conservatisme contre-révolutionnaire des intellectuels de l'Action Française, la perspective démocratique et sociale de l'"Humanisme intégral" de J. Maritain qui influence l'apparition des Démocrates Chrétiens en Amérique latine et la pensée sociale et révolutionnaire de la gauche catholique repr…
Is there a Law of Arrested and Un-Combined Development
L'humanisme historiciste de Marx ou Relire Le Capital
Ecosocial Struggles of Indigenous Peoples
The indigenous communities have become the center of the struggle for the environment in Latin America. This is true not only through their local actions in defense of rivers or forests against pet
Crise ecologica, crise capitalista, crise de civilização
Neste artigo defende-se a tese que a crise do capitalismo e a crise ecológica resultam da dinâmica do sistema capitalista que transforma seres humanos e recursos naturais em mercadorias necessárias à expansão dos negócios e a acumulação de lucros. Na sua feição atual a crise reflete as dificuldades da civilização capitalista industrial e do seu modo de vida caracterizado pelo american way of life, em manter-se sem rupturas. A questão ecológica, d…
La Revolution Espagnole (1854-1856)
U.S. Research in Progress
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L'humanisme historiciste de Marx ou Relire Le Capital
De la grande logique de Hegel à la gare finlandaise de Petrograd
Lowy Michael. De la grande logique de Hegel a la gare finlandaise de Petrograd. In: L'Homme et la societe, N. 15, 1970. marxisme et sciences humaines. pp. 255-267
Guevara, marxisme et réalités actuelles de l'Amérique latine
Weber et Marx
Rebuttal to Pospisil
General and Theoretical
Audiovisuals Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Vagrant Woman . A film by JOHN MARSHALL A Forty Dollar Misunderstanding . A film by JOHN MARSHALL Two Brothers . A film by JOHN MARSHALL Wrong Kid . A film by JOHN MARSHALL The Informant . A film by JOHN MARSHALL After the Game . A film by JOHN MARSHALL 901/904 . A film by JOHN MARSHALL An Investigation of a Hit and Run . A film by JOHN MARSHALL A Legal Discussion of a Hit and Run . A film by JOHN MARSHALL Nothing H…
The Marxism of Che Guevara
La Pensee de Che Guevara
Everyday Disputes and Mediation in the United States
In a recent article in these pages Professor W.L.F. Felstiner (1974) made a substantial contribution to the literature on dispute processing by analyzing the role of avoidance as a means of ending disputes, and by correlating the ubiquity of this technique with differing forms of societal organization. In brief, his insight—richly developed in the article—is that the tendency to walk away from contentious situations is greater in “technologically…
Lukacs and Stalinism
Is there a Law of Arrested and Un-Combined Development
Notes sur Lukács et Gramsci
Lowy Michael. Notes sur Lukacs et Gramsci. In: L'Homme et la societe, N. 35-36, 1975. Marxisme critique et ideologie. pp. 79-87
Marxists and the National Question
The aim of this article is to isolate certain key theoretical and methodological aspects of the classic Marxist debate on the national question: a debate which had its starting-point in the relatively imprecise positions developed by Marx and Engels themselves in their writings, and which was carried on
Rosa Luxemburg, Journalist, Polemiste, Revolutionnaire
Individuum und Praxis. Positionen der 'Budapester Schule
Union Structure and Labor Organization in the Recent History of Brazil
In this article we analyze the limits imposed by the union structure (established by Getulio Vargas) on the Brazilian labor movement in the last 30 years. In the first part we discuss the 1964 coup and its impact on the unions and the working class. In the second part we discuss the historic roots of the lack of labor resistance to the coup and to the first period of military dictatorship. In the third part we take up the first forms of labor res…
Interview with Ernst Bloch
Bloch: One shouldn't exaggerate.... There was a Schiur (private seminar) which met every Sunday afternoon at Weber's house, in which half of the Stefan George Circle participated, so they weren't exactly revolutionaries.... And Weber himself was far from being a revolutionary. He considered himself to be objective and the bearer of a value-free science (Wert-frez). At that time Marxism didn't play the same role it does now; it was considered to b…
Les Marxistes et la question nationale, 1848-1914
Préface à « Littérature hongroise, Culture hongroise »
Rosa Luxemburg
In an essay which she wrote in 1903 (‘Progress and Stagnation in Marxism’), Rosa Luxemburg showed how certain of Marx’s texts are discovered or forgotten according to the stage of the struggle of the proletariat. The same analysis may be applied to her own political and theoretical legacy
Lukács et Rosa Luxemburg
A Good Name is Worth More Than Money
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