Jean-Claude Michéa (French: [ʒɑ̃klod miʃea]; born 1950) is a French philosopher, author of several essays devoted in particular to the thought and work of George Orwell.[1]
Jean-Claude Michéa | |
|---|---|
 Michéa in 2008 | |
| Born | 1950 (age 75–76) Paris, France |
| Education | |
| Education | Lycée Paul Valéry Paris-Sorbonne University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Continental philosophy Libertarian socialism | |
Notable ideas | Liberalism justifying itself as the empire of the lesser evil |
A 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 Orwell, 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
edit- Climats, ed. (1995). Orwell, anarchiste tory (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-000-2.
- Climats, ed. (1998). Les Intellectuels, le peuple et le ballon rond (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-093-4.
- Climats, ed. (1999). L'Enseignement de l'ignorance et ses conditions modernes (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-121-4.
- Éditions du Tricorne, ed. (2001). Les Valeurs de l'homme contemporain (in French). Tricorne. ISBN 978-2-8293-0223-7. (with Alain Finkielkraut and Pascal Bruckner)
- Climats, ed. (2002). Impasse Adam Smith, brèves remarques sur l'impossibilité de dépasser le capitalisme sur sa gauche (in French)., republication Champs-Flammarion, 2006[6]
- Climats, ed. (2003). Orwell éducateur (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-233-4.
- Climats, ed. (2007). L'Empire du moindre mal : essai sur la civilisation libérale (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-122043-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), rep. Champs-Flammarion, 2010 - Champs-Flammarion, ed. (2008). La Double Pensée, retour sur la question libérale (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-121839-0.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Climats, ed. (2011). Le Complexe d'Orphée : la gauche, les gens ordinaires et la religion du progrès (in French). Climats. ISBN 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 ISBN 2081284634
- Climats, ed. (2013). Les Mystères de la gauche : de l'idéal des Lumières au triomphe du capitalisme absolu (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-08-129789-0.
- Flammarion, Climats, ed. (2014). Le plus beau but est une passe (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-131314-9.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Flammarion, ed. (2014). La Gauche et le Peuple : lettres croisées (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-131313-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ; with Jacques Julliard - Flammarion, Climats, ed. (2016). Notre ennemi, le capital (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-139560-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Flammarion, Climats, ed. (2018). Le loup dans la bergerie (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-143334-2.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Vauban, ed. (2025). Towards a Conservative Left: Selected Writings of Jean-Claude Michéa. Blowing Rock. ISBN 979-8988739982.
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References
edit- ↑ Michael C. Behrent, "France's Anti Liberal Left", Dissent, spring 2019
- ↑ "Jean-Claude Michéa : "La gauche doit opérer un changement complet de paradigme"". Le Comptoir (in French). 26 February 2016..
- ↑ In an interview that he had given to the French magazine À Contretemps, Jean-Claude Michéa comes back at length on his family, his political path and his intellectual development (À 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 Archived 2008-11-23 at the Wayback Machine (in French) lecturer in economical sciences at the Rennes 1's University.
- ↑ « "Le Complexe d'Orphée", de Jean-Claude Michéa : Michéa, c'est tout bête » (in French), review of the book by Luc Boltanski for Le Monde des livres du 6 octobre 2011.
- ↑ The French magazine Causeur give to him a special file in October 2011.
External links
edit- 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
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