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1898–1979 Germany

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a prominent German-American philosopher, Marxist and sociologist of the Frankfurt School.

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German idealism rescued philosophy from the attack of British empiricism, and the struggle between the two became not merely a clash of different philosophical school, but a struggle for philosophy as such. P. 16

Reason and Revolution, Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (1941)

Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs and aspirations, their satisfaction promotes business and the commonweal, and the whole appeals to be the very embodiment of Reason.

One-Dimensional Man (1964)

The philosopher … subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment — namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.

One-Dimensional Man (1964)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Herbert Marcuse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.