Although to be better known for his international trajectory, especially that which began in the late 1960s in France, it was in São Paulo that Michael Löwy began his intellectual itinerary in the second half of the 1950s. The purpose of this article is to analyze the importance of this process of intellectual formation of Löwy, between the late 1950s and the mid - 1970s. The aim is to analyze some of the leading threads of the intellectual trajectory of the author, from his first researches on the labor movement within the sociology of São Paulo until his more theoretical work in France, on the works of Marx, Lukács and other “revolutionary intellectuals”.
Intellectuals; Sociology; Socialism; Cosmopolitism; Engagement