John Holloway (sociologist)

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John Holloway
John Holloway (2011)
Born1947 (age 76–77)
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisHarmonisation and Co-ordination of Social Security in the European Communities (1975)
Doctoral advisorsJohn David Bawden Mitchell
Henry Drucker
Doctoral studentsAllin Cottrel|de

John Holloway (born 1947) is a

Autonomous University of Puebla.[1]

Background

Holloway was born in

Ph.D[2] in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh
in 1975, before moving into sociology.

He is brother to writer and academic David Holloway, and first cousin to Canadian political activist Kate Holloway and Canadian entertainer Maureen Holloway.

Work

During the 1970s, Holloway was an influential member of the

Althusserian state theory and the Regulation school,[5]
and affirms the centrality of the class relation between capital and working class, as a struggle.

His 2002 book,

Autonomist in outlook, and his work is often compared and contrasted with that of figures such as Antonio Negri
, although the two have their disagreements.

His 2010 book

anti-capitalist
struggles should be about concrete doing against labour, and not a struggle of labour against capital.

Holloway also originally contributed to and produced a forward for the influential In and Against the State, updated in 2021 to reflect on the Corbyn movement.

Influences on culture

Music

Composer Reynaldo Young acknowledges in the performance notes of his piece "ay'tik" that Change the World Without Taking Power is the "theoretical source which the strategic principles of this score came from."[6] Both Holloway and the composer attended the world premiere of the piece, which took place on 26 July 2002 in Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire.[7]

See also

Bibliography

Books in English

Chapters in English

Online articles

References

Further Reading

  • Dinerstein, A., 2018. John Holloway: The theory of interstitial revolution. In The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory (pp. 533–549). Sage Publications.

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