Jean-Claude Michéa

Jean-Claude Michéa (French: [miʃea]; born 1950) is a French philosopher, author of several essays devoted in particular to the thought and work of George Orwell.^[1]

Jean-Claude Michéa
Michéa in 2008
Born	1950 (age 74–75) Paris, France
Education
Education	Lycée Paul Valéry Paris-Sorbonne University
Philosophical work
Era	21st-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Libertarian socialism
Notable ideas	Liberalism justifying itself as the empire of the lesser evil

A libertarian socialist,^[2] he is known for his committed positions against the dominant currents of the left which, according to him, has lost all spirits of anti-capitalist struggle to make way for the “religion of progress”.^[3] Advocating several moral values near the socialism of George Orwell, Jean-Claude Michéa excoriates the leftist intelligentsia that has, in his view, gotten away from the proletarian and popular world.^[4]

He champions collective moral values at odds with an increasingly individualistic and liberal world, which uses only the law and the economy to justify itself. He "considers that the liberal bourgeois models have prevailed upon socialism, in swallowing it up" and "regrets that socialism has accepted the political liberalism's theories".^[5]

Bibliography

• Climats, ed. (1995). Orwell, anarchiste tory (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-000-2.
• Climats, ed. (1998). Les Intellectuels, le peuple et le ballon rond (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-093-4.
• Climats, ed. (1999). L'Enseignement de l'ignorance et ses conditions modernes (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-121-4.
• Éditions du Tricorne, ed. (2001). Les Valeurs de l'homme contemporain (in French). Tricorne. ISBN 978-2-8293-0223-7. (with Alain Finkielkraut and Pascal Bruckner)
• Climats, ed. (2002). Impasse Adam Smith, brèves remarques sur l'impossibilité de dépasser le capitalisme sur sa gauche (in French)., republication Champs-Flammarion, 2006^[6]
• Climats, ed. (2003). Orwell éducateur (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-84158-233-4.
• Climats, ed. (2007). L'Empire du moindre mal : essai sur la civilisation libérale (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-122043-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), rep. Champs-Flammarion, 2010
• Champs-Flammarion, ed. (2008). La Double Pensée, retour sur la question libérale (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-121839-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Climats, ed. (2011). Le Complexe d'Orphée : la gauche, les gens ordinaires et la religion du progrès (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-08-126047-4.^[7][8]
• L'Âme de l'homme sous le capitalisme (in French), postscript of La Culture de l’égoïsme - Discussion entre C. Lasch et C.Castoriadis, Climats, 2012 ISBN 2081284634
• Climats, ed. (2013). Les Mystères de la gauche : de l'idéal des Lumières au triomphe du capitalisme absolu (in French). Climats. ISBN 978-2-08-129789-0.
• Flammarion, Climats, ed. (2014). Le plus beau but est une passe (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-131314-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Flammarion, ed. (2014). La Gauche et le Peuple : lettres croisées (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-131313-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ; with Jacques Julliard
• Flammarion, Climats, ed. (2016). Notre ennemi, le capital (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-139560-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Flammarion, Climats, ed. (2018). Le loup dans la bergerie (in French). Paris. ISBN 978-2-08-143334-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)