BLOG 7: AN EXPERT ON YOUR FIELD

Hi, Today I’m going to talk about Herbert Marcuse.

Herbert Marcuse was a Jewish sociologist, philosopher, and political theorist born in German, on 1898.

 He studied in Fritburgo University, with great authors like Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Later, he wrote a thesis about Hegel and the historicity, but his mentor, Heidegger, didn't approve that. Because of the Nazi Regimen, he had to immigrate to Paris and finished his studies at Frankfurt University. As time goes on, he became a prominent figure in the field of Philosophy. In 1952 he started a career as a teacher of Philosophy and Politics in the Columbia University and later in Harvard University.  When he retires, he started to work at California University, where he won a lot of influence, at to the point to become in the group of 3M: Marx, Mao, and Marcuse.

In 1955, based on studies about Freud and the “Uneasiness in culture “  he wrote “Eros and Civilization”, where he started to deploy his career as an “Freud-Marxist”. In 1965, Marcuse published “One-Unidimensional Man”, a masterpiece in the field of Sociology, Philosophy and Political Sciences. I love this book because I believe that resume all the ideas of the author that I in particular share completely. This book talks about the modern society, the capitalism, the idea of society dominated by images and superficiality, the individualism, the art as a product of capitalism and the consumerism, and even he referred to the decadence of Philosophy from a very critical eye.