Michel Clouscard

Michel Clouscard
Born August 6, 1928
Montpinier
Died February 21, 2009
Gaillac
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Continental philosophy
Western Marxism
Main interests
Politics, economics, sociology, history
Notable ideas
Criticism of libertarian liberalism

Michel Clouscard (French: [kluskaʁ]; August 6, 1928 – February 21, 2009) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist.

Biography

Clouscard's early life was dominated by athletics. He competed in the 200 meters race at the 1948 London Olympics.

Clouscard's graduate studies in letters and philosophy under the tutelage of Henri Lefebvre culminated with a thesis, The Being and the Code (L'Être et le Code; published 1972), presented to Jean-Paul Sartre, among others, for defense. Clouscard was a professor of sociology at the University of Poitiers from 1975 to 1990. In the early Seventies, Michel Clouscard developed a critique of libertarian liberalism.

Theses

According to Clouscard, the "capitalism of seduction" with its libertarian liberal face arises from the very evolution of the capitalist mode of production. It testifies to a qualitative jump of the accumulated quantities which, at a certain moment, reach a libertarian structure of society.

With its libertarian face, liberalism achieves its own self-realization, until the inevitable catastrophe. Clouscard speaks then about neofascism.

Drawing up the inventory of fixtures of the liberal counter-revolution's consequences, Clouscard produced a philosophical work to think and propose the basis of a new social contract and to enable a progressivist re-foundation.

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References

  1. Critic of Libertarian Liberalism, Paris, Delga, p. 141
  2. Interview in "L'Evadé", n°9, French 141
  3. Critic of Libertarian Liberalism, Paris, Delga, p. 141

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