biography
pronunciation:
[mah(r)koozuh]
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| (1898–1979)
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| Marxist philosopher, born in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Berlin and Freiburg, and became an influential figure in the Frankfurt School. He fled to Geneva in 1933, and after World War 2 moved to the USA, working in intelligence. He later held posts at Columbia (1951), Harvard (1952), Brandeis (1954), and California, San Diego (1965–76). His books include Reason and Revolution (1941), Eros and Civilization (1955) and, more famously, One Dimensional Man (1964), condemning the ‘repressive tolerance’ of modern industrial society which both stimulated and satisfied the superficial material desires of the masses at the cost of more fundamental needs and freedoms. |
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