10 Facts About Michel Clouscard

Michel Clouscard was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist.

Michel Clouscard is known to have philosophically shown the collusion between capitalism and the French theory, represented by Levi-Strauss and Deleuze, constructing his own concept of neo-Kantianism.

Michel Clouscard developed a philosophical research around the idea of social contract, postulating that "the constitutive principle of any society is the relation between production and consumption".

Michel Clouscard's contribution aimed at providing a conceptual basis for thinking about a democratic and self-management political philosophy that would allow for the overcoming of the management of wealth, nations and the political education of citizens by the capitalist class.

Michel Clouscard was preselected to compete in the 200 meters race at the 1948 London Olympics.

Michel Clouscard was a professor of sociology at the University of Poitiers from 1975 to 1990, where he was influenced by his colleague, Jacques D'Hondt, a specialist in Hegel.

Michel Clouscard retired to Gaillac to write the end of his work, which is still partly unpublished.

Michel Clouscard determines the economic and mercantile function of the promotion of new cultural models in advertising ideology to save capitalism in crisis.

Michel Clouscard thus denounces the ideological function of worldly feminism: the working woman must claim the right to exploitation and denounce her working-class husband as a "phallocrat", leading to a civil war in the working class.

Michel Clouscard denounced this drift of the market economy at a time when the cycle of alternating recession and recovery introduced unemployment and austerity as a structural horizon for workers, and in particular for the working class, and thus allowed a part of the "over-numbered" and weakened working class to find an outlet in the leisure industry and the "prostitutional economy".