André Gorz
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André Gorz (born 1923 in Vienna) (also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet) son of a Jewish wood salesman, is an Austrian and French social philosopher. In the 1980s, he lived as a publicist in France and was a contributor to the journals Les Temps Modernes (Paris) and Technologie und Politik (Reinbek). Currently, he lives with his wife in Burgundy, France.
In the 1960s, he was a theorist of workers' self-management. Later, he was also concerned with political ecology. His central theme is work: liberation from work, just distribution of work, alienated work, etc.
[edit] Books
- "Socialism and Revolution" (first published in France in 1967)
- Ecology As Politics (South End Press, 1979)
- The Traitor (1980)
- Farewell to the Working Class (1980)
- Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology (1994)
- Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society (1999)
- L'immatériel - Connaissance, valeur et capital (Galilée, 2003, in French)
- Critique of Economic Reason
