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2 days ago · At the same time, a new member of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse, had begun making a name for himself by working on similar theories. Fortunately for these critical theorists, many within positions of power held similar utopian ideologies, ushering the likes of Horkheimer and Marcuse into places of significant influence.
3 days ago · Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, came to America from Germany in the early 1930s, and were in full action mode at Columbia University in New York City in 1935. Unlike the Marxists of their time, the Frankfurt School saw the Western working class as having sold out on the communist revolution, and instead they advocated a long march through the institutions, starting with ...
6 days ago · In 1923, a group of professors known as the Frankfurt School came to the fore. These German Marxists—notably Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse—harbored a deep disdain for capitalism and traditional morals. Unfortunately, the professors did not stay in their homeland long.
5 days ago · For Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher and notorious member of the Frankfurt School, Marx did us a service in trying to expose capitalism as a historically-contingent mode of production based on reified social relations that do not facilitate—in fact, impede—the harvesting of reason as the path to the flowering of human autonomy, and ...
5 days ago · The very possibility of cornucopia led the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse to declare “the end of utopia”; that is, he wrote, “the refutation of those ideas and theories that use the concept of utopia [i.e., as an unrealizable dream] to denounce certain socio-historical possibilities.’”
5 days ago · The philosopher Herbert Marcuse is right when he says that technology is not neutral. Technology is developed based on a project, which can be one of emancipation or domination. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition
2 days ago · After World War II, critical theorists like Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer played pivotal roles in the denazification process. They used this opportunity to impose Marxist ideology on Germany, extending collective guilt to the entire German population to undermine their cultural identity.
