“I should like to emphasize the vital importance of the work of C. Wright Mills.”
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse 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…
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culture · German–American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979) · philosopher · sociologist · political theorist · university teacher · political scientist · also Herbert Marcuse, Marcuse
Born 19 July 1898 · Died 29 July 1979 · Q60030
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2026· 2 entries
Countercurrents: From Marx to Weber and Marcuse: Alienation, Rationalisation and the Continuing Critique of Capitalism
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2024· 1 entry
CounterPunch: Herbert Marcuse – New Left Revival?
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2015· 1 entry
Jewish Journal: The Frankfurt Exchange, Part 3: Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm’s differing views on Israel
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2014· 1 entry
Libcom: Herbert Marcuse
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Frankfurt school, part 4: Herbert Marcuse
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2007· 1 entry
San Diego Union-Tribune: Philosopher Herbert Marcuse’s writings released
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2003· 1 entry
After Marcuse's ashes were rediscovered in the United States, they were buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery in Berlin
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1980· 1 entry
“Protosocialism and Late Capitalism: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis Based on Bahro's Analysis”
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1979· 2 entries
Died 1979-07-29.
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Ten days after his eighty-first birthday
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1977· 1 entry
On the role of art in the process of what he termed "emancipation" from bourgeois society
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1976· 1 entry
“On the Problem of the Dialectic”
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1974· 1 entry
Mentioning this in a Stanford lecture, "I believe the Women's Liberation Movement is perhaps the most important and potentially the most radical political movement that we have – even if the consciousness of this fact ha
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1973· 1 entry
Marcuse married Erica Sherover (1938–1988), a former graduate student at the University of California, in 1976
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1972· 1 entry
Wrote Counterrevolution and Revolt, which argues that the hopes of the 1960s were facing a counterrevolution from the right
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1969· 1 entry
In which he celebrated liberation movements such as those in Vietnam, which inspired many radicals
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1968· 1 entry
California Governor Ronald Reagan and other conservatives objected to his reappointment, but the university decided to let his contract run until 1970
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1966· 1 entry
The FBI officially began systematic surveillance on Marcuse due to his perceived role in the emerging student protest movement
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1965· 1 entry
Marcuse taught at the University of California, San Diego
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1945· 1 entry
Marcuse was employed by the US Department of State as head of the Central European section, becoming an intelligence analyst of Nazism
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1943· 1 entry
Transferred to the Research and Analysis Branch (R&A) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency
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1942· 1 entry
To work for the Office of War Information, and afterward the Office of Strategic Services
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1940· 2 entries
Marcuse published Reason and Revolution, a dialectical work studying Hegel and Karl Marx
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Became a US citizen and resided in the country until his death in 1979
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1934· 1 entry
Resided in Freiburg, Berlin, Geneva, and Paris
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1932· 2 entries
“Neue Quellen zur Grundlegung des Historischen Materialismus”
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Marcuse stopped working with Heidegger, who joined the Nazi Party in 1933
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1928· 3 entries
"concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence
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“concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence.”
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To write a habilitation under Martin Heidegger, titled Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity (Hegels Ontologie und die Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit, 1932)
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1927· 1 entry
“s fundamental ontology, as begun in the latter”
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1924· 1 entry
And had his first son Peter with in 1928
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1922· 1 entry
On the German Künstlerroman, after which he moved back to Berlin, where he worked in publishing
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1920· 1 entry
Transferred to the University of Freiburg to concentrate on German literature, philosophy, politics, and economics
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1919· 1 entry
Attended the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, taking classes for four semesters
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1916· 1 entry
Was drafted into the German Army, but only worked in horse stables in Berlin during World War I
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-07-19.
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