Michel Clouscard


Michel Clouscard 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, Being and the Code, 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.

Philosophical work

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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