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Herbert Marcuse was born July 19, 1898, in Berlin, to Carl Marcuse and Gertrud Kreslawsky.Marcuse's family was a German upper-middle-class Jewish family that was well integrated into German society. [6]
Repressive desublimation is a term, first coined by Frankfurt School philosopher and sociologist Herbert Marcuse in his 1964 work One-Dimensional Man, that refers to the way in which, in advanced industrial society (), "the progress of technological rationality is liquidating the oppositional and transcending elements in the “higher culture.” [1] In other words, where art was previously a ...
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by the German–American philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, in which the author offers a wide-ranging critique of both the contemporary capitalist society of the Western Bloc and the communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in ...
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The author Brian Easlea writes that Marcuse, having in the past been attacked by Marxists for his "quite unambiguous indictment of science and perhaps feeling that he had directed too much attention away from the rulers of advanced industrial society", apparently "reversed direction" in An Essay on Liberation by endorsing science and technology as "great vehicles of liberation".
Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort is a book composed of the original Office of Strategic Services reports on Nazi Germany prepared primarily by Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer, who had all been part of the original Frankfurt School of critical theory.
America lost one of its true cultural icons when Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977.Hailed as “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Presley was born on Jan. 8, 1935. If Presley were alive today ...
Herbert was born to a Jewish family in Louisville, Kentucky. He dropped out of high school to move to Hillsboro, Texas to work and live near his brother Theodore, his three sisters and his parents. [1] His various retail, sales and janitorial positions helped him escape the economic hardships of life in Kentucky. In 1899, Herbert moved to ...