German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
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Herbert Marcuse
Marcuse in 1955
Born
(1898-07-19)July 19, 1898
Berlin, German Empire
Died
July 29, 1979(1979-07-29) (aged 81)
Starnberg, West Germany
Nationality
German
American
Alma mater
University of Berlin University of Freiburg
Notable work
Eros and Civilization (1955)
One-Dimensional Man (1964)
Spouses
Sophie Wertheim
(m. 1924; died 1951)
Inge Neumann
(m. 1955; died 1973)
Erica Sherover
(m. 1976)
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy
Frankfurt School
Western Marxism
Doctoral students
Angela Davis
Andrew Feenberg[1]
Paul Gottfried
William Leiss[1]
Main interests
Social theory
communism
socialism
industrialism
technology
Notable ideas
Technological rationality
great refusal[2]
one-dimensional man
work as free play
repressive tolerance
repressive desublimation
negative thinking
totalitarian democracy
Signature
Part of a series on the
Frankfurt School
Major works
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Eclipse of Reason
Eros and Civilization
Escape from Freedom
Minima Moralia
Negative Dialectics
One-Dimensional Man
Reason and Revolution
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Theory of Communicative Action
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Notable theorists
Adorno
Apel
Benjamin
Fromm
Forst
Grünberg
Geuss
Habermas
Honneth
Horkheimer
Jaeggi
Kluge
Kracauer
Kirchheimer
Kompridis
Kuhlmann
Löwenthal
Marcuse
McCarthy
Negt
Neumann
Offe
Pollock
Schmidt
Sohn-Rethel
Wellmer
Wingert
Important concepts
Advanced capitalism
Antipositivism
Communicative rationality
Critical theory
Culture industry
Dialectic
Legitimation crisis
Non-identity
Popular culture
Praxis
Privatism
Psychoanalysis
Related topics
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Marxist humanism
Recognition
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Herbert Marcuse (/mɑːrˈkuːzə/; German:[maʁˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD.[3] He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what 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.[4]
Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US 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 preeminent 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".[5]
His best-known works are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). His Marxist scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally.
^ ab"Essential Marcuse". Archived from the original on 2021-05-27. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
^"The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory" Archived 2018-02-18 at the Wayback Machine, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
^Lemert, Charles. Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 2010.
^Mann, Douglas. 2008. "A Survey of Modern Social Theory". Oxford University Press.
^Rothman, Stanley (2017). The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture. Routledge. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-35129562-8. Archived from the original on 2020-08-03. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
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