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Herbert Marcuse

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German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)

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Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was a philosopher, sociologist, university teacher, and political scientist associated with the Frankfurt School. Born in Berlin, he held citizenship in the Weimar Republic, the United States, West Germany, and Germany. His field of work included philosophy, social theory, and Freudo-Marxism. Marcuse was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. He participated in World War I and was educated at Harvard University, Columbia University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the University of Freiburg.

Marcuse worked for the Freie Universität Berlin, Brandeis University, the University of California, San Diego, and the Office of Strategic Services. His notable works include *Eros and Civilization* and *One-Dimensional Man*. Other listed works are *Versuch über die Befreiung*, *Eros et civilisation*, *Reason and revolution*, *Gespräche mit Herbert Marcuse*, and *Der eindimensionale Mensch*. He spoke and wrote in German and English. Marcuse died in Starnberg from a cerebral hemorrhage and was buried in Dorotheenstadt Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Born
19 Jul 1898
Died
29 Jul 1979
Works
103

Top works

  • Versuch über die Befreiung
  • Eros et civilisation
  • Reason and revolution
  • Gespräche mit Herbert Marcuse
  • Der eindimensionale Mensch

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Active from
1898
Active to
1979

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
79
Total plays
346

Tags

kritische theorie

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)

    · 2008 · cited 11,361x

  2. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,801x

  3. A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice

    · 1955 · cited 10,016x

  4. Bevacizumab plus Irinotecan, Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

    · 2004 · cited 8,525x

  5. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 7,999x

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Quotes

  • “Bourgeois political economy … never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘science of people’ but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.”
  • “In conditions of private property … “life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.”
  • “We hope that the analysis offered here will demonstrate that Hegel’s basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that have led into Fascist theory and practice. Preface”
  • “As the German idealists saw it, the French Revolution not only abolished feudal absolutism, replacing it with the economic and political system of the middle class, but it completed what the German Reformation had begun, emancipating the individual as a self-reliant master of his life. p. 3”
  • “Man is a thinking being. His reason enables him to recognize his own potentialities and those of his world. He is thus not at the mercy of the facts that surround him, but is capable of subjecting them to a higher standard, that of reason. P. 6”
  • “Man alone has the power of self-realization, the power to be a self-determining subject in all processes of becoming, for he alone has an understanding of potentialities and a knowledge of ‘notions.’ His very existence is the process of actualizing his potentialities, of molding his life according to the notions of reason. P. 9”

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Encyclopedic overview

Herbert Marcuse (/mɑːrˈkuːzə/ mar-KOO-zə; German: [maʁˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and then at the University of Freiburg, where he received his PhD under the supervision of Martin Heidegger. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research, which later became known as the Frankfurt School. In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism, and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.

Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in U.S. government service for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) where he criticized the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the book Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958). In the 1960s and the 1970s, he became known as the pre-eminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of West Germany, France, and the United States; some consider him "the Father of the New Left".

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