Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Michael Löwy
Born: May 6, 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Michael Löwy is a French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS and lectures at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Known for:
- The war of gods (1996)
- Romanticism against the tide of modernity (2001)