Michael Lowy

CURRICULUM VITAE

Michael Löwy,  born in Brazil to Jewish/Viennese parents on May 6, 1938.  Living in Paris since 1969.
            Nationality :  French.  Address :  4 rue de la Glacière,  75013 Paris.

Studies
Licence in Social Sciences,  University of S. Paulo,  Brazil,  1960
First  PhD  (3ème cycle),  Sorbonne,  1964  and Second PhD (doctorat d'Etat),  Sorbonne,  1975.

Career
• - Lecturer in political science,  University of Tel-Aviv,  1965-68
• - Lecturer in sociology,  University of Manchester 1968-1969
• - Lecturer in sociology,  University of Paris 8,  1969-77
• - Guest Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,  Paris,  1981 – 2010
- Research Director in Sociology at the CNRS  (National Center for Scientific Research),  Paris,  1978 – 2003
 
Distinctions 
Silver Medal of the CNRS as the best social scientist in  1994.

Guest Lectures
Guest lecturer invited by the Universities of Mexico, S.Paulo,  Rio de Janeiro, Campinas, Montréal,  Princeton, Pittsburgh,  Portland, Michigan  (Ann Arbor)  California (UCLA et Berkeley), Stanford, Columbia, Wisconsin, Lausanne,  Copenhague,  Kassel,  Amsterdam, London (Birkbeck), Warwick, New Delhi, Shanghai,  etc.

Present Position
  Emeritus  Research Director in Sociology at the CNRS  (National Center for Scientific Research),  Paris,  attached to the CeSor,  Centre d’Etudes en Sciences Sociales du Religieux,  CNRS-EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).

Symposia on my work
              International conference at the University of S. Paulo, Brazil,  « Michael Löwy’s Utopias”,  September-October 2005.  Proceedings published as a book ,  As utopias de Michael Löwy, S.Paulo,  Ed. Boitempo,  2007.
              International Conference in Paris,  “The Crossing of Borders.  Sociology,  Philosophy,  History and Literature in the work of Michael Löwy,”,  Maison d’Amérique Latine, March 2009.  Proceedings published as a book  Cartographies de l’utopie. L’œuvre indisciplinée de Michael Löwy, (ed. E.Dianteill et V.Descombes) ,  Paris,  Editions du Sandre ,  2011


Selected Book Publications  :
Georg Lukacs :  From Romanticism to Bolshevism.  London: Verso,  1981.  Also in French,  Spanish,  Italian,  Swedish ,  Portuguese.
Redemption and Utopia.  Libertarian Judaism in Central Europe.  Stanford, Ca. :  Stanford University Press, 1992.  Also in French, Italian, Greek,  Swedish,  German, Spanish and Portuguese
On Changing the World.  Essays in political philosophy,  from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin.  New Jersey:  Humanities Press, 1993. Also in Persian and Dutch.
The War of Gods.  Religion and Politics in Latin America.  London :  Verso,  1996.  Also in Spanish,  Portuguese and French.
Fatherland or Mother Earth ?  Essays on the national question.  London:  Pluto Press,  1998.  Also in French,  Spanish and Portuguese.
Romanticism against the Tide of Modernity (with Robert  Sayre).  Durham:  Duke University Press,  2001.  Also in French,  Greek ,  Spanish,  Turkish and Portuguese.
Fire Alarm. Reading Walter Benjamin’s  Theses ‘On the Concept of History.’  London:  Verso,  2005.  Also in French,  Italian,  Spanish,  Portuguese,  Turkish and Greek.
Franz Kafka, rêveur insoumis. Paris:  Stock,  2004. Also in Spanish,  Portuguese, Greek,  Italian,  Turkish.
La cage d’acier. Weber et le marxisme wébérien, Paris,  Stock,  April  2013.

I have published twenty seven monographs,  two thematic anthologies  and  hundred and fourty nine articles.  These have been translated into twenty nine languages.