Lucien Goldmann Editor & Author

Lucien Goldmann was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. As a professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, he was an influential Marxist theorist.

Michael Löwy is Research Director of Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. His previous books include Redemption and Utopia: Liberation Judaism in Central Europe, Marxism in Latin America and The War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America.