Michael Löwy
Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. 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.
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- Born in
- São Paulo
- Educated at
- School for Advanced Studies in the Social SciencesUniversity of São PauloParis Descartes University
- Awards
- 🏆 CNRS silver medal🏆 Scriptures & Spiritualities Award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Lucien Goldmann🎓 Louis-Vincent Thomas
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Juan Agulló📖 Enzo Traverso
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1938
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