André Gorz
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André Gorz (*1924 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 contributor of the journals "Les Temps Moderne" (Paris) and "Technologie und Politik" (Reinbek). Currently, he lives with his wife in Burgund, 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...
[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)
