Marcuse

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A German-born American political thinker who criticizes capitalism and modern technology

proper noun
/mɑrˈkuːz/

: Marcuse

In his book "Eros and Civilization," the Freudian-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse explicitly connected his thinking with gnosticism.
Herbert Marcuse
Marcuse and Adorno

And so they set about and constructing what Marcuse calls critical theory in order to start poking holes in liberal democracy.

Examples

In Germany, she met Herbert Marcuse, who awoke her interest in philosophy and Marxism.
Josep Pla once argued that Herbert Marcuse contributed his immense talent to the confusion of our times.
Herbert Marcuse has also discussed the critical function of art in the struggle for liberation.

Academic text (1993)
I like Angela Davis and her Communist professor, Herbert Marcuse, and I went to their school.

Blog text (15)
After struggling with the manuscript for a few months, a bewildered Herbert Marcuse wrote to Horkheimer.

Academic text (1998)
Marcuse locates this same twofold operation in the bourgeois conception of high culture and the fine arts.

Academic text (2014)
The accommodation indicates the further development of what the German philosopher Herbert Marcuse termed "repressive desublimation," whereby alternative forms of behavior are tolerated by being given outlets in commodity consumption.

Academic text (2012)
When monuments force viewers to swallow propaganda, Professor Marcuse says, "The monument becomes an icon of ridicule."

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Marcuse is a family name that comes from the old personal name Marcus, which is the same root as the common name Mark. Think of it as 'from Marcus' — many family names come from an older family member's first name, and that helps you remember Marcuse is a surname, like the philosopher Herbert Marcuse.