Herbert Marcuse





Herbert Marcuse

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born
in Berlin, Germany
July 19, 1898

died
July 29, 1979

gender
male

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influences
Kant, Hegel, Marx, Husserl


About this author

German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left", his best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension. Marcuse was a major intellectual influence on the New Left and student movements of the 1960s.


Average rating: 3.91 · 3,578 ratings · 169 reviews · 70 distinct works · Similar authors
One-Dimensional Man: Studie...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,837 ratings — published 1964 — 28 editions
Eros and Civilization: A Ph...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1953 — 21 editions
An Essay on Liberation
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions
Reason and Revolution: Hege...
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1940 — 14 editions
The Aesthetic Dimension: To...
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions
Counterrevolution & Revolt
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions
The Essential Marcuse: Sele...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
A Study on Authority
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2008
Negations: Essays in Critic...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions
Five Lectures: Psychoanalys...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1970 — 3 editions
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“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
Herbert Marcuse

“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
Herbert Marcuse

“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”
Herbert Marcuse