Jean-Claude Michéa (; born 1950) is a French philosopher, author of several essays devoted in particular to the thought and work of George Orwell.Michael C. Behrent, "France's Anti Liberal Left", Dissent, spring 2019
A libertarian socialist,. 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".In an interview that he had given to the French magazine À Contretemps, Jean-Claude Michéa comes back at length on his family, his political path and his intellectual development (À Contretemps, n° 31, juillet 2008) (in French). Advocating several moral values near the socialism of Orwell, Michéa excoriates the leftist intelligentsia that has, in his view, gotten away from the proletarian and popular world.P. Ansay, « Jean-Claude Michéa, philosophe communautarien socialiste » (in French), in Politique, revue de débats, Bruxelles, n° 73, janu.-feb. 2012, pp. 86-92.
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".Revue française de science politique (in French), vol. 55 2005/3, p. 558.
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(with Alain Finkielkraut and Pascal Bruckner) , republication Champs-Flammarion, 2006« A real work of analysis » according Jean-Louis Perrault (in French) lecturer in economical sciences at the Rennes 1's University.
, rep. Champs-Flammarion, 2010
« "Le Complexe d'Orphée", de Jean-Claude Michéa : Michéa, c'est tout bête » (in French), review of the book by Luc Boltanski for Le Monde des livres du 6 octobre 2011.The French magazine Causeur give to him a special file in October 2011. 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
; with Jacques Julliard
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External links Interview of Jean-Claude Michéa (in French) La Gazette, n° 595, September 10–16, 1999 « Pour un anarchisme conservateur », Interview of Jean-Claude Michéa (in French), Le Nouvel Observateur, September 27, 2011 « Retour sur l'Empire du moindre mal » on the French website contrepoints.org, April 12, 2013