Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)

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1. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory, The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics

2. Theodor W. Adorno

   Author of Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Aesthetic Theory, Prisms

3. Jürgen Habermas

   Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests, Theory and Practice

4. Karl Marx

   Author of Capital: A Critique of Political Ecomony, Vol. 1: The Process of Production of Capital, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy, Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

5. Max Horkheimer

   Author of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Critical Theory (Critical Theory Ppr), Critique of Instrumental Reason (Critique of Reason Ppr)

6. Hannah Arendt

   Author of The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism, On Revolution

7. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

   Author of Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel: Philosophy of Mind (Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences), Faith and Knowledge

8. Walter Benjamin

   Author of Illuminations, The Arcades Project, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

9. Georg Lukács

   Author of History and Class Consciousness, The Theory of the Novel, Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought

10. Louis Althusser

    Author of For Marx, Reading Capital, On Ideology

11. Michel Foucault

    Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Fearless Speech

12. Fredric Jameson

    Author of Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Prison-House of Language, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic

13. Sigmund Freud

    Author of Civilization and Its Discontents, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Two Short Accounts of Psychoanalysis (Pelican)

14. Max Weber

    Author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set)

15. Friedrich Engels

    Author of The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan, Anti-Duhring, The German revolutions: The Peasant War in Germany, and Germany: revolution and counter-revolution

16. Martin Jay

    Author of The Dialectical Imagination, Adorno, Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas

17. Antonio Gramsci

    Author of Selections from the Prison Notebooks, The Modern Prince and Other Writings

18. Jean-Francois Lyotard

    Author of The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

19. Norman Oliver Brown

    Author of Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, Love's Body

20. Martin Heidegger

    Author of Being and Time, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Hegel's Concept of Experience: With a Section from Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit in the Kenley Royce Dove Translation