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Name Place of birth Place of death Nationality Life Tendency Victor Adler: Prague, Austria-Hungary: Vienna, Austria: Austrian 1852–1918 Social democracy, Austro-Marxism: Theodor W. Adorno [1] Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau Province, Prussia, Germany: Visp, Visp, Valais, Switzerland: German 1903–1969 Frankfurt School, Western Marxism: Louis ...
Arnold Hauser (8 May 1892 – 28 January 1978) was a Hungarian-German art historian and sociologist who was perhaps the leading Marxist in the field. He wrote on the influence of change in social structures on art.
In her 1970 book Meaning and Expression: Toward a Sociology of Art, Hanna Deinhard gives one approach: "The point of departure of the sociology of art is the question: How is it possible that works of art, which always originate as products of human activity within a particular time and society and for a particular time, society, or function -- even though they are not necessarily produced as ...
The foundational basis of Marxist sociology is the investigation of capitalist stratification. An important concept of Marxist sociology is "a form of conflict theory associated with…Marxism's objective of developing a positive science of capitalist society as part of the mobilization of a revolutionary working class."
Henri Lefebvre (/ l ə ˈ f ɛ v r ə / lə-FEV-rə; French: [ɑ̃ʁi ləfɛvʁ]; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for furthering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space, and for his work on dialectical materialism, alienation, and criticism of Stalinism ...
Marxist aesthetics is a theory of aesthetics based on, or derived from, the theories of Karl Marx.It involves a dialectical and materialist, or dialectical materialist, approach to the application of Marxism to the cultural sphere, specifically areas related to taste such as art, beauty, and so forth.
This is a list of those who contributed to Marxist theory, principally as authors; it is not intended to list politicians who happen(ed) to be a member of a nominally communist political party or other organisation.
Margaret Maruani (born 1954), Tunisian-French sociologist; Gary T. Marx, American sociologist; Karl Marx (1818–1883), German political philosopher, social theorist; Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist; Douglas Massey, American sociologist; Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist; Humberto Maturana, Chilean biologist and sociologist of ...