BF199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gain Ground, United States Department Of State, Totalitarianism
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Marcuse, herbert one dimensional man, p 1-18, 56-74. Herbert marcuse was born in berlin in 1898. He was a student at the university of berlin and the university of freiberg. At freiberg he received a ph. d. for his work on hegel and hegel"s philosophy of history. When the nazis came to power in germany he left and taught in geneva for a year. In 1934 he moved to the united states and worked at the institute of social research at. From approximately 1940 to 1950 he worked with the united states office of. Intelligence research in the state department, finishing as the acting head of the. In 1950 he returned to columbia and worked at the russian institute. In 1954 he moved to brandeis university, and taught there until 1967, when he moved to the university of california. Marcuse remained active writing and granting interviews up to his death in 1979. Marcuse became the philosopher of the 1960s.