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Herbert Marcuse

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

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Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher and political theorist (1898–1979) who developed influential critiques of modern capitalist society and its effects on human freedom. His ideas became especially important to radical movements in the 1960s because he argued that advanced industrial societies use culture and consumption to control people's desires and prevent them from imagining alternatives to the existing system.

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Vinony's link graph records 2,032 inbound references to Herbert Marcuse, and connects out to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Harvard University and totalitarianism.

It sits within the topics 1898 births, 1979 deaths and 20th-century American male writers.

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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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Active from: 1898
Active to: 1979

Discography

Der Mensch in einer sozialisierten Welt (1966)2008

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 79
Total plays: 346

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF)
· 2008 · cited 11,290x
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 10,739x
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
· 1955 · cited 9,754x
Bevacizumab plus Irinotecan, Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
· 2004 · cited 8,497x
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 7,715x

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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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Image: Herbert Marcuse in Newton, Massachusetts 1955.jpeg
Number of children: 1

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date of birth: 1898-07-19
date of death: 1979-07-29
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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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