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Herbert Marcuse

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(1898–1979) German-born US philosopher, famous in the 1960s as the theorist of the new revolutionary left. Born in Berlin, Marcuse was educated at the University of ...

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World Encyclopedia

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..., Herbert ( 1898–1979 ) US radical political philosopher , b. Germany . Marcuse is noted for his critical reinterpretations of Marxism , and for his Freudian analysis of 20th-century industrial society. In the 1920s, he was a founder member of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933 , he settled in the USA and worked for the US government ( 1941–50 ). Marcuse's advocacy of civil resistance found favour with left-wing students of the 1960s. His works include Eros and Civilization ( 1955 ) and One-Dimensional Man ...

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The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers

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...J. Lukes, eds. Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left (Lawrence, Kan., 1994). Katz, Barry . Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation: An Intellectual Biography (London and New York, 1982). Kellner, Douglas. Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (Berkeley, Cal., 1984). Contains a bibliography of Marcuse’s writings. MacIntyre, Alasdair . Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic (New York, 1970). Mattick, Paul . Critique of Marcuse: One-dimensional Man in Class Society (New York, 1972). Nordquist, Joan . Herbert Marcuse: A Bibliography ...

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Charles Crittenden

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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...preserves the memory of a liberated way of living and so escapes the domination of the present, repressive order. Marcuse's revised Marxism provides both a broad critique of advanced capitalist society and utopian proposals for a post-capitalist world. Prof. Charles Crittenden See also Marxist philosophy. Barry Katz , Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation: An Intellectual Biography (London, 1982). Douglas Kellner , Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (Berkeley, Calif.,...

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Dictionary of the Social Sciences

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..., Herbert ( 1898–1979 ) A philosopher and key member of the Frankfurt school , Marcuse made diverse contributions to critical theory. With Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer , he pioneered the Frankfurt school's critique of instrumental reason; later, he pursued an innovative integration of Marxism and Freudian psychology, which had a major impact on student radicalism in the 1960s. Marcuse studied with Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl —influences that shaped his early efforts to reconcile existential phenomenology and Marxism. In the course...

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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)

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..., Herbert ( 1898–1979 ) Political and social theorist . Marcuse was born in Berlin, and became associated with the Frankfurt school . His early work was a synthesis of Marxism , phenomenology , and existentialism . In 1934 he fled Nazi Germany to America and began teaching at Columbia university, subsequently holding posts with the Office of Strategic Services and the Office of Intelligence Research. He held posts at Brandeis ( 1954 ) and at San Diego ( 1965 ). His first work in English, Reason and Revolution ( 1941 ), is an introduction to...

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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

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...and Revolt . Boston, 1972. Marcuse, Herbert Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetick: Ein Essay . Munich, 1977. Marcuse, Herbert Eros and Civilisation: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud . Boston, 1955. Marcuse, Herbert One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society . Boston, 1964. Marcuse, Herbert Schriften . 9 vols. Frankfurt am Main, 1978–1989. Marcuse, Herbert The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics . Boston, 1978. Marcuse, Herbert Über den affirmativen...

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Franz Koppe

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)

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...Suhrkamp, 1978–1989. “Über den affirmativen Charakter der Kultur.” Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 6 (1937): 54–94. Other Sources Görtzen, R. “Kommentierte Bibliographie der Schriften über Herbert Marcuse.” In Kritik und Utopie im Werk von Herbert Marcuse , edited by Institut für Sozialforschung . Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1992. Kellner, Douglas . Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Franz Koppe ...

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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century

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..., Herbert ( 1898–1979 ) German-born US philosopher, famous in the 1960s as the theorist of the new revolutionary left. Born in Berlin, Marcuse was educated at the University of Freiburg, where he gained his doctorate in 1922 ; he then became an associate at the influential Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt. With the rise of Hitler , however, Marcuse left Europe for the USA, where he remained for the rest of his life. He taught at Columbia, Brandeis, and the University of California, La Jolla. During World War II Marcuse worked for military...

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Geraldine Lievesley

A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations (4 ed.)

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..., Herbert ( 1898–1979 ) German philosopher . Member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory . Escaping Nazi persecution, he settled in the United States in 1934 . As an enthusiastic supporter of the student and black movements of the 1960s, he became known as the ‘father of the New Left ’. Arguing that ‘the task of theory’ was ‘to liberate practice’ ( 1928 ), he called for a reconstruction of Marxist social and historical theory. His work centred upon an attempted synthesis of Hegel , Marx, and Freud (his most significant text on the latter...

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A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)

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..., Herbert ( 1898–1979 ) German cultural critic and one of the most influential members of the Frankfurt School . Late in life, he became an intellectual superstar and a celebrity figure, particularly among dissident students, with the publication of One Dimensional Man ( 1964 ), which spoke to the baby-boomer generation of their velvet-lined repression under capitalism and sold over a million copies. Marcuse was born in Berlin into a family of assimilated, upper-middle-class Jews. He was in the army during the First World War, but did not see...

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A Dictionary of Sociology (4 ed.)

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..., Herbert ( 1898–1979 ) A German philosopher and social theorist , a member of the Frankfurt School ( see critical theory ). Unlike other members, he remained in the United States after the end of the war, and maintained a commitment to radical politics until the end of his life. He had a strong influence on the ideas of the student left in the 1960s. His version of critical theory grew out of the mainstream of European philosophy: the work of Hegel , phenomenology and existentialism , and the meeting of these with some aspects of Marxism ....

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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

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2006
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...Herbert Marcuse 1898 – 1979 German-born American philosopher By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For ‘totalitarian’ is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. It thus precludes the emergence of an effective opposition against the whole. Not only a specific form of government or party rule makes for totalitarianism, but also a...

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New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.)

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Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

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The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary

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Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse  

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(1898–1979)German-born US philosopher, famous in the 1960s as the theorist of the new revolutionary left.Born in Berlin, Marcuse was educated at the University of Freiburg, where he gained his ...
repressive tolerance

repressive tolerance  

The passive acceptance of social and governmental practices, policies and actions which restrict freedom in an absolute sense. The Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse coined the term in an ...
one-dimensional man

one-dimensional man  

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The title and central concept of an influential study of modern society by critical theorist Herbert Marcuse (1964). One-dimensionality refers to the progressive closing off of the possibility of ...
desublimation

desublimation  

Herbert Marcuse's term for the process whereby art (in the strictest sense) is rendered banal and powerless. In One-Dimensional Man (1964), his million-selling account of the changes to society ...
Leo Löwenthal

Leo Löwenthal  

(1900–93)Germansociologist of literature and original member of the Frankfurt School. Born in Frankfurt am Main to a middle-class Jewish family, he met future Frankfurt School colleagues Theodor ...

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