Herbert Marcuse

Tags: Philosopher.

Herbert Marcuse (German: [maʁˈkuːzə]; July 19 1898 – July 29 1979) was a German American philosopher sociologist and political theorist associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin Marcuse studied at the universities of Berlin and then at Freiburg where he received his Ph.D. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School.

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birth date

1898-07-19

birth place

Berlin, German Empire, Germany

death date

1979-07-29

death place

Germany, Starnberg, West Germany

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Jürgen Habermas, Abbie Hoffman, Angela Davis, Norman O. Brown, Douglas Kellner

influenced by

Edmund Husserl, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger

main interest

Industrial Revolution, Socialism, Technology, Social theory

notableIdea

Technological rationality, Free Play (Derrida), One-Dimensional Man, A Critique of Pure Tolerance

philosophicalSchool

Frankfurt School, New Left, Critical theory, Western Marxism

region

Western philosophy