Ludovico Silva

Luis José Silva Michelena, best known as Ludovico Silva (1937–1988) was a Venezuelan poet and philosopher. A Marxist philosopher, he developed an account of ideology as symbolic surplus.^[1]

Life

Luis José Silva Michelena was born in Caracas on February 16, 1937, the son of Hector Silva Urbano and Josefina Michelena. He was educated at a private school, the Colegio San Ignacio, Caracas, before travelling to study philosophy, literature and philology in Spain, France and Germany. From 1970 to 1986 he was a professor of philosophy at the Central University of Venezuela. From 1964 to 1968 he was head of the Caracas Athenaeum. With Miguel Otero Silva he founded the literary magazine Lamigal.^[2]

Heavy drinking caused his brain to be affected by excess ammonium, and in 1986 he was committed to a mental institution for 33 days. He died in Caracas on December 8, 1988.^[2]

Works

Tenebra, 1964
La Plusvalía Ideológica [Ideological surplus], 1970
El estilo literario de Marx [Marx's literary style], 1970
Teoría y práctica de la ideología [Theory and practice of ideology], 1971
Anti-manual para uso de marxistas, marxólogos y marxianos [Anti-manual for the use of Marxists, Marxologists and Marxians], 1975
El estilo literario de Marx [Marx's literary style], 1975
- Marx’s Literary Style, Verso 2023, ISBN 9781839765537.
Ensayos temporales: Poesía y teoría social [Temporary essays: poetry and social theory], 1983
La alienación como sistema: la teoría de la alienación en la obra de Marx [Alienation as a system: the theory of alienation in Marx's work], 1983
La interpretación femenina de la historia y otros ensayos [The female interpretation of history and other essays], 1987
Opera poética, 1958-1982 [Poetical works, 1958-1982], 1988
La torre de los ángeles [The tower of the angels], 1991

References

^ Susana Nuccetelli; Ofelia Schutte; Otávio Bueno, eds. (2013). A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 222–. ISBN 978-1-118-61056-5.
^ ^a ^b Jorge Alberto Calles-Santillana, Ludovico Silva and the move to critical studies in Latin American communication studies, Javnost, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2006), pp.69-80

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[NuccetelliSchutte2013-1] Susana Nuccetelli; Ofelia Schutte; Otávio Bueno, eds. (2013). A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 222–. ISBN 978-1-118-61056-5.

[Javnost-2] Jorge Alberto Calles-Santillana, Ludovico Silva and the move to critical studies in Latin American communication studies, Javnost, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2006), pp.69-80

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