Ludovico Silva
Luis José Silva Michelena, best known as Ludovico Silva was a Venezuelan poet and philosopher. A Marxist philosopher, he developed an account of ideology as symbolic surplus.Life
Luis José Silva Michelena was born in Caracas on December 12, 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.
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.Works
- Tenebra, 1964
- La Plusvalía Ideológica , 1970
- El estilo literario de Marx , 1970
- Teoría y práctica de la ideología , 1971
- Anti-manual para uso de marxistas, marxólogos y marxianos , 1975
- El estilo literario de Marx , 1975
- Ensayos temporales: Poesía y teoría social , 1983
- La alienación como sistema: la teoría de la alienación en la obra de Marx , 1983
- La interpretación femenina de la historia y otros ensayos , 1987
- Opera poética, 1958-1982 , 1988
- La torre de los ángeles , 1991
