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Marcuse, Herbert
Herbert Marcuse was born to an affluent assimilated Jewish family in Berlin in 1898. During the revolutionary activity at the end of World War I, Marcuse served briefly in a soldiers’ council, where he participated in the street fighting that convulsed Berlin at this time. In the following years, Marcuse pursued a doctorate in modern German literature at Humboldt University in Berlin and Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg. In 1922, he graduated magna cum laude with a dissertation on “The German Artist-Novel,” which was influenced by Georg Lukács’s early Theory of the Novel and which anticipated many of his own later writings on the critical and utopian role of autonomous art in modern capitalist societies.
Like many other intellectuals of his generation, Marcuse was greatly impressed ...
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