20th century · 1898–1979
Who influenced Herbert Marcuse?
Influences
One-Dimensional Man: taught the New Left that freedom can be repressive in comfort.
Herbert Marcuse was influenced by Karl Marx, Ernst Bloch and Martin Heidegger. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Herbert Marcuse?
Herbert Marcuse, born in Berlin, took his doctorate under Martin Heidegger at Freiburg and became a prominent member of the Institute for Social Research, later known as the Frankfurt School. He argued that capitalism, modern technology, Soviet communism and popular culture were new forms of social control.
In the 1960s and 1970s he was the leading theorist of the New Left and of the student movements in West Germany, France and the United States. His best-known books are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964).
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Herbert Marcuse?
3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Karl Marx 1818–1883
- Ernst Bloch 1885–1977
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
The line of teachers behind Herbert Marcuse
The longest documented line of influence ending at Herbert Marcuse runs 26 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- Karl Marx
- Ernst Bloch
- Herbert Marcuse
Two steps away from Herbert Marcuse
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Herbert Marcuse
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Herbert Marcuse, with no direct line between them.
- Louis Hjelmslev 1899–1965
- Alfred Schutz 1899–1959
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980
- Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–2002
- Roman Jakobson 1896–1982
- Gilbert Ryle 1900–1976
- Jacques Lacan 1901–1981
- Mikhail Bakhtin 1895–1975
Herbert Marcuse by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 3
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 115
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 66 — #29 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- Frankfurt School: György Lukács, Antonio Gramsci, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Jürgen Habermas
Questions about Herbert Marcuse
- Who influenced Herbert Marcuse?
- Karl Marx, Ernst Bloch and Martin Heidegger.
- Who did Herbert Marcuse influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Herbert Marcuse.
- When did Herbert Marcuse live?
- 1898–1979. The map files Herbert Marcuse under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Herbert Marcuse card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Herbert Marcuse in 66 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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