Jean-Claude Michéa Explained
Jean-Claude Michéa, born in 1950, is a retired philosophy professor and French philosopher, author of several essays devoted in particular to the thought and work of George Orwell.[1] Libertarian socialist,[2] he is known for his committed positions against the dominant currents of the left which, according to him, has lost all spirits of anti-capitalist struggle to make way for the “religion of progress”.[3] Advocating several moral values near the socialism of George Orwell, Jean-Claude Michéa excoriates the leftist intelligentsia that has, in his view, gotten away from the proletarian and popular world.[4] He champions collective moral values at odds with an increasingly individualistic and liberal world, which uses only the law and the economy to justify itself. He “considers that the liberal bourgeois models have prevailed upon socialism, in swallowing it up” and “regrets that socialism has accepted the political liberalism’s theories”[5]
Bibliography
- Book: fr. Orwell, anarchiste tory. Climats. 1995. Climats . 978-2-84158-000-2.
- Book: fr. Les Intellectuels, le peuple et le ballon rond. Climats. 1998. Climats . 978-2-84158-093-4.
- Book: fr. L'Enseignement de l'ignorance et ses conditions modernes. Climats. 1999. Climats . 978-2-84158-121-4.
- Book: fr. Les Valeurs de l'homme contemporain. Éditions du Tricorne. 2001. Tricorne . 978-2-8293-0223-7. (with Alain Finkielkraut and Pascal Bruckner)
- Book: fr. Impasse Adam Smith, brèves remarques sur l'impossibilité de dépasser le capitalisme sur sa gauche. Climats. 2002., republication Champs-Flammarion, 2006[6]
- Book: fr. Orwell éducateur. Climats. 2003. Climats . 978-2-84158-233-4.
- Book: fr. L'Empire du moindre mal : essai sur la civilisation libérale. Paris. Climats. 2007. 978-2-08-122043-0., rep. Champs-Flammarion, 2010
- Book: fr. La Double Pensée, retour sur la question libérale. Paris. Champs-Flammarion. 2008. 978-2-08-121839-0.
- Book: fr. Le Complexe d'Orphée : la gauche, les gens ordinaires et la religion du progrès. Climats. 2011. Climats . 978-2-08-126047-4. [7] [8]
- L'Âme de l'homme sous le capitalisme (in French), postscript of La Culture de l’égoïsme - Discussion entre C. Lasch et C.Castoriadis, Climats, 2012
- Book: fr. Les Mystères de la gauche : de l'idéal des Lumières au triomphe du capitalisme absolu. Climats. 2013. Climats . 978-2-08-129789-0.
- Book: fr. Le plus beau but est une passe. Paris. Flammarion, Climats. 2014. 978-2-08-131314-9.
- Book: fr. La Gauche et le Peuple : lettres croisées. Paris. Flammarion. 2014. 978-2-08-131313-2. ; with Jacques Julliard
- Book: fr. Notre ennemi, le capital. Paris. Flammarion, Climats. 2016. 978-2-08-139560-2.
- Book: fr. Le loup dans la bergerie. Paris. Flammarion, Climats. 2018. 978-2-08-143334-2.
External links
- Interview of Jean-Claude Michéa, (in French) La Gazette, n° 595, September 10–16, 1999
- « Pour un anarchisme conservateur », Interview of Jean-Claude Michéa (in French), Le Nouvel Observateur, September 27, 2011
- « Retour sur l'Empire du moindre mal » on the French website contrepoints.org, April 12, 2013
Notes and References
- Michael C. Behrent, "France's Anti Liberal Left", Dissent, spring 2019
- Web site: Jean-Claude Michéa : "La gauche doit opérer un changement complet de paradigme". Le Comptoir. fr. 26 February 2016. .
- In an interview that he had given to the French magazine "A contretemps", Jean-Claude Michéa comes back at length on his family, his political path and his intellectual development (A Contretemps, n° 31, juillet 2008) (in French).
- P. Ansay, « Jean-Claude Michéa, philosophe communautarien socialiste » (in French), in Politique, revue de débats, Bruxelles, n° 73, janu.-feb. 2012, pp. 86-92.
- Revue française de science politique, (in French), vol. 55 2005/3, p. 558.
- « A real work of analysis » according Jean-Louis Perrault, (in French) lecturer in economical sciences at the Rennes 1's University.
- https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2011/10/06/le-complexe-d-orphee-de-jean-claude-michea_1582895_3260.html « "Le Complexe d'Orphée", de Jean-Claude Michéa : Michéa, c'est tout bête »
- http://www.causeur.fr/causeur-magazine-40-pour-en-finir-avec-la-gauche,12125 The French magazine Causeur give to him a special file in October 2011.
