Joseph Gabel (12 July 1912 in Budapest – 15 June 2004 in Paris)[1] was a French Hungarian-born sociologist and philosopher.
He left Hungary because of a Numerus Clausus for Jewish citizens[1] and first studied Psychopathology with Eugène Minkowski,[2] then he turned to Sociology (he was mainly influenced by Karl Mannheim and Georg Lukács).
In 1962, he published his most important work: False Consciousness: An Essay on Reification.
From the standpoint of psychopathology, this study works to synthesize Marxist notions of "false consciousness" and reification with the study of schizophrenia.
Gabel also wrote the articles "Utopia" and "Ideology" in the Encyclopedia Universalis and he was one of the only French specialists on Karl Mannheim.