"Joseph Gabel" was born in Hungary, and educated in French universities. He is the author of "False Consciousness" (1962); "Sociology of Alienation" (1970); "Ideologies, Vol. I" (1974); "Ideologies II" (1978), all in French. His book on The Forms of Estrangement (1964) was published in German. His shorter articles have appeared in "Kolner Zeitschrift for Soziologie und Sozial-psychologie", and the "Newsletter of the International Society for the Sociology of Knowledge".