The Most Important French Marxist You’ve Never Heard Of: Michel Clouscard (feat. Aymeric Monville)

We are joined by Aymeric Monville, author of Neocapitalism According to Michel Clouscard and publisher of Delga Editions to discuss the work of French Marxist philosopher Michel Clouscard. In this interview, we discuss Clouscard's thought, his major works, concepts and ideas. Michel Clouscard was a prominent French Marxist philosopher whose work aimed to reveal the collusion between capitalism and French theory, represented by thinkers ranging from Lévi-Strauss, Lacan to Deleuze, constructing his own concept of neo-Kantianism to describe these thinkers. Clouscard developed a philosophical approach around the idea of the social contract and was highly influenced by the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, he postulated that "the constitutive principle of any society is the relation between production and consumption".

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Chapters:

• Clouscard's Critique of French Theory
• Clouscard's Dissertation Being and the Code (L'Etre et le Code)
• Clouscard's Concept of Bourgeois Ideology and Neo-Kantianism
• Neo-fascism and the Ideology of Desire
• Clouscard's Theory of the Middle Strata & Neo-fascism
• Clouscard's Style
• The Capitalism of Seduction: Key Ideas
• Clouscard's Method
• The Paths of Praxis (Clouscard's later work)

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