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