| Aronson,
Ronald  (b.
1938), Professor of Humanities, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
- distinguished Sartre scholar
- graduate student at Brandeis 1962-68: MA 1965, Ph.D. 1968: "Art
and Freedom in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre," advised by
Henry David Aiken and Herbert Marcuse.
- Reader for Herbert in the Brandeis History of Ideas Program 1963-64.
- Aronson's Wayne State
faculty website
- Publication: "Dear Herbert" (A critique of Herbert Marcuse),
in: George Fisher, ed., The Revival of American Socialism
(Oxford University Press, 1971).
- July 2005 reminiscence posted on Doug
Ireland's blog entry:
"Today the
most important effect of studying with [Herbert] and being influenced
by him seems to be the intellectual and political resiliancy I developed.
From Althusser to postmodernism I remained unphased by the various
fads and was able to hold on to a radical, indeed strongly Marxist
perspective, and at the same time not forget that the ultimate political
goal was to join theory and practice. His teaching was so clear, so
simple, so powerful. Like Sartre, he produced few acolytes, many independent
thinkers and actors. My After Marxism [1995] has an extended
discussion of my encounter with him (the "Marxist Itinerary"
chapter) as well as a coming to grips with his heritage in the final
chapter."
Behrens,
Roger (b. 1967), philosopher ,
sociologist und theoretician of art, author, freelance cultural journalist
und musician. 2005: academic assistant at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
Benhabib,
 Seyla
(b. 1950), Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale
- received her first BA in Istanbul, then a BA in philosophy from
Brandeis in the 1970s, and her Ph.D. from Yale in 1977. She taught
the New School for Social Research 1991-93, Harvard 1993-2000, and
since 2000 at Yale.
- Current research on multiculturalism in liberal democracies and
transformations of citizenship
- Selected publications (more
detailed list and biography):
- Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the
Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia Univ. Press, 1986),
455 pages, UCSB: B809.3 .B46 1986.
- translator: Herbert Marcuse, Hegel's Ontology
and the Theory of Historicity. Trans. Seyla Benhabib (MIT
Press, 1987)
- co-editor: On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives.
(co-edited with Wolfgang Bonss and John McCole) (MIT Press, 1993).
- co-editor: Habermas and the Unfinished Project
of Modernity: Critical Essays on the Philosophical Discourse of
Modernity, edited by Maurizio P. D'Entreves and Seyla Benhabib
(MIT, 1996)
- The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt
(Sage Pub., 1996)
- Transformation of Citizenship: Dilemmas
of the Nation-State in the Era of Globalization (Van Gorcum:
Amsterdam, 2000)
- The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity
in the Global Era (Princeton , 2002)
Bergman,
Lowell  (b.
late 1940s), professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism,
former investigative journalist and producer of CBS's 60 Minutes
and PBS's Frontline.
Birnbaum,
Norman (b. ),  Professor
at Georgetown University Law School, member of the editorial board of
The Nation.
- Georgetown
faculty biography
- Contribution to Doug
Ireland's July 2005 blog entry:
"Here are
some brief recollections of Herbert. There is little new to say about
his intellectual and political influence. I have always thought of
Eros And Civilization as a major work, combining historical
insight and human imagination. Compared with the others of the Frankfurt
School of his generation, Herbert was far more cosmopolitan, more
committed, more courageous (I think of the disgraceful episode in
which Horkheimer attempted to have the young Juergen Habermas dismissed
from the Institut fuer Sozialforschung because of his political
views.) What I now think of, however, are Herbert's great human qualities:
forthrightness, an enormous capacity for enjoyment, and a splendid
sense of humor.
"I recollect his marvelous talk on Max Weber at the 1964 German
Sociological Association Weber centenary meeting. [published
in New Left Review, March/April 1965, pp. 3-17] Raymond
Aron, Pietro Rossi, Talcott Parsons had given reasonable academic
evaluations of Weber (Parsons, to be sure, had somehow situated him
'beyond ideology,' a location which would have rendered Weber himself
uncomfortable.) Herbert (seconded by Habermas) delivered a large critique
of Weber's Dec[is]ionism, connecting him to Carl Schmitt, and raised
the question of how value-free the advocate of a value-free social
science actually was. He invited the public to ask if Weber did not
bear some responsibility for the intellectual onslaught on the Weimar
Republic which prepared the way for Nazism---which was, in 1964, a
breach of German academic decorum.
"I also remember the way he began the talk, by citing the inscription
over the doorway of the university building, in Heidelberg, in which
the meeting was held: "Dem Lebendigen Geist" (roughly,
'To The Living Spirit') 'Es gibt Dinge, die man nicht uebersetzten
kann.' 'There are phrases which are untranslatable.' I believe
that the visit occasioned some melancholic self-reflection on whether
he should have taken a full-time academic post in post-war Germany.
In the end, of course, Herbert could hardly complain of a lack of
influence in Germany and there is hardly a member of the present government
who will not have read his writings. That he would greet with all
of his irony---and so prepare the way for the next try.
"We were having a drink in the Heidelberger Hof and
the singular conventionality of some of the other guests caught his
attention. 'Norman, reality is its own caricature.'
I also recall a visit to Herbert and Inge, winter of 1969. ... It
was snowing in New England, and I had to cope with ice and fog on
Highway 91 as I drove from Amherst to Hartford airport. The next morning,
Herbert and I walked to the La Jolla campus, with its palm trees,
attractive women in Californian splendor, and tie-less nearness to
sensuality. 'Herbert, what a contrast with New England!' 'Norman,
I have always told you, winter is a bourgeois ideology' ... May his
memory be blessed."
Blanco-Aguinaga, Carlos
(b. 1920s?). Prof. of Literature emeritus, colleague of Herbert's at UCSD
- lots interview footage in film Herbert's Hippopotamus (film
page on this site)
- first book: Unamuno, teórico del lenguaje. (El Colegio
de México, 1954)
- his wife Iris was a graduate student at UCSD from 1970 to 1972.
- see: Encuentros en la diáspora:
 homenaje
a Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, published in October 2003 by Associació
d’Idees – GEXEL. Edited by Mari Paz Balibrea (University of London)
in collaboration with Rosaura Sánchez, Beatrice Pita, and Jaime
Concha.
This book is a collection of essays by noted writers who have been
inspired by Carlos Blanco-Aguinaga. It opens with Mari Paz Balibrea’s
biographical essay on Carlos Blanco-Aguinaga and a bibliography of
his work, is available in the department library, courtesy of Rosaura
Sánchez. (2002), 256 páginas, ISBN: 84-87478-37-9, 17,50
Euros
- "La trayectoria
vital e intelectual de Blanco Aguinaga desborda los límites
de la academia o, quizá mejor, amplía éstos hasta
conseguir una unidad de trabajo y vida en la que influyen y se retroalimentan
vocación literaria y crítica, convicciones políticas
y extraordinarias circunstancias históricas.
Encuentros en la diáspora se compone de artículos
de muy diferente índole, y que pretenden funcionar como representativos
de la amplitud de diálogos y disciplinas que el trabajo y la
trayectoria de este autor ha conseguido abarcar. Quienes colaboran
en este volumen son reconocidas personalidades en sus propias disciplinas,
países y campos de especialización. Amigos y colegas
de tres continentes unidos en este inusitado libro que sólo
el hilo conductor de la amistad y el intercambio intelectual con Carlos
Blanco Aguinaga podía hacer posible."
Claussen,
 Detlev
(b. 1948), studied philosophy, sociology, literature and political science
in Frankfurt (Adorno was one of his teachers). He teaches Social Theory
and Sociology of Culture at the University of Hannover.
Davis,
 Angela
(b. 1944), activist philosopher and professor in the History of Consciousness
program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published
on race, class, gender and the prison-industrial complex.
Davis,
Mike (b. 1946) ,
writer, historian, activist, resides in Los Angeles
- detailed biography: Adam Schatz, "The American
Earthquake: Mike Davis and the politics of disaster,"
in: Lingua Franca, Sept. 1997, republished
on Radical Urban Theory:
In 1969, after being fired by Dorothy Healey, the
regional party leader, for hounding the Russian cultural attaché
out of the store--Davis despised the Soviets and didn't like them
snooping around--he enrolled in a teamsters' opportunity program.
For the next four years, he hauled 240-foot trailers filled with Barbie
dolls out of L.A., acquiring an encyclopedic knowledge of the city
as well as of Western geography. In his spare time, he tried to master
Marx's Capital and Sartre's Search for a Method and paid visits
to Herbert Marcuse. Fellow left-wing truckers were rather
hard to come by. "At night we'd go out to topless bars, and I'd
blurt out, 'I'm a communist,' and they'd say, 'Dick's a Jehovah's
Witness. Let's have another drink.'"
- In a 1990s interview with Mark Dery, "Downsizing the Future:
Beyond Blade Runner with Mike Davis," probably published in Dery's
Escape Velocity (Grove 1997) [$1
used at amazon], and on
Dery's website (alternate link):
"You know,
I don't really know what postmodernism is; I do know that we live
in a post-liberal, post-reformist period where substantive urban reform
has been abandoned and where the liberal positions of the '60s now
stand in almost revolutionary relationship to political discourse
in this country. What's being recycled as postmodernism is Frankfurt
School Marxism in its most pessimistic mode, although admittedly jazzed
up with some very interesting thoughts about new technologies and
media. But Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man
still squats on the horizon, shaping the argument; the 'postmodern'
disappearance of the critical subjectivity is pure Marcuse.
...
Davis: Of course, although I should point out that the malling of
public space doesn't have this kind of Marcuse-ian determinacy,
where the critical consciousness or the rebellious subject is extinguished
in the sweet plunder of intoxicated consumption. Rather, what actually
happens is the definition of new forms of criminality, to the extent
that the social spaces that people--- particularly kids---use are
now these pseudo-public spaces, malls and their equivalents. Increasingly,
the only legal youthful activities involve consumption, which just
forces whole areas of normal teenage behavior off into the margins."
- author of (additional texts available on
Radical Urban Theory website):
- Prisoners of the American dream : politics
and economy in the history of the US working class
(London: Verso, 1986)
- ed: The Year left 2: an American Socialist
yearbook (London: Verso, 1987)
- and Michael Sprinker (eds.), Reshaping the
US left : popular struggles in the 1980s (London: Verso,
1988)
- et al, ed: Fire in the hearth: the radical
politics of place in America (London: Verso, 1990)
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in
Los Angeles (Verso, Vintage, 1990)
- LA was just the beginning: Urban revolt
in the United States: a thousand points of light (Open magazine
pamphlet series, no. 20); (PO Box 2726, Westfield NJ 07091), 20
pages
- Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, The
Ecology of Fear (full
text at MediaMatic)
(Open magazine pamphlet series, no. 23); (PO Box 2726, Westfield
NJ 07091), 20 pages
- Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination
of disaster (New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998)
- Prisoners of the American dream: politics
and economy in the history of the US working class (Verso,
1999)
- video, in America behind Bars series: Beyond
the prison industrial complex [videorecording]: critical
resistance / [presented by] Deep Dish T.V.
Publisher San Francisco, Calif. : Critical Resistance Video :
Public Media Network [distributor], [1999?] Description 1 videocassette
(56 min.)[highlights from 1998 Berkeley conf.]
- Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the US
city (New York : Verso, 2000)
- Late Victorian holocausts : El Nin~o famines
and the making of the third world (New York: Verso, 2001)
- Dead cities, and other tales (New York:
New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2002)
- Land of the lost mammoths: a science adventure
(Santa Monica, CA: Perceval Press, 2003)
- Under the perfect sun : the San Diego tourists
never see (New York: New Press; distributed by W.W. Norton,
2003)
- "Planet
of Slums," in New Left Review (March-April 2004):
"Future history of the Third World’s post-industrial megacities.
A billion-strong global proletariat ejected from the formal economy,
with Islam and Pentecostalism as songs of the dispossessed."
- The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat
of Avian Flu (New Press, 2005)
- "Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and
the Informal Proletariat"
- Readings from Marcuse and Davis are included in the University
of Warwick course "Explorations in Critical Theory and Cultural
Studies," 2005-06.
- Margit Mayer used texts by Davis and Peter Marcuse in a 2002 Berlin
course: "New
York City and Los Angeles: Contrasting Politics in the Global City."
- Nov.
1998 LA Weekly biography
Ditfurth,  Jutta.
(b. 1951), sociologist and German Green party co-founder
Dobson, Alan J.,
England (not Alan P. of Dundee, Scotland).
- On July 5, 2005 Dobson wrote the following in this
site's guestbook:
"I wrote my
Ph.D on Herbert's work at the University of Sheffield UK. I still
regulary reread his work and derive considerable intellectual excitement
therefrom. It is a paradox Herbert would appreciate that the continued
relevence of his work is both a matter for the celebration of his
understanding of capitalism and a source of depression that capitalism
has increased its capacity to secure itself against opposition."
- The British library
catalog copac.ac.uk lists:
The concepts of reason and essence in the writings of Herbert
Marcuse : with special emphasis on the period 1964-1979, Thesis
(Ph.D.) - University of Sheffield, Dept. of Politics, 1989.
Dorfman,
Ariel  (b.
1942), Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American professor of Literature and Latin
American Studies at Duke University since 1985; playwright, political
essayist, poet, novelist.
- Dorfman's website at Duke
- He wrote the following message,
included on Doug Ireland's blog:
"I owe so
much to Marcuse - he was the first one, as I can recall, who made
me understand why we had to oppose both the Soviet system and its
capitalist twisted mirror. But I simply have not a moment to spare
- and if I were to write something it should be a real reckoning trying
to figure out what was so deeply right, but also what went wrong.
Or maybe simply how we misapplied Marcuse. I have not given it much
thought and should but at the moment simply can't.
"The only reference in my work which others may find interesting
in this regard is the chapter of Heading South, Looking North:
A Bilingual Journey, where I tell the story of our trip to Berkeley
from pre-revolutionary Chile in 1968-69, and then our return to Santiago
to join the Allende revolution which was about to burst onto world
history. I deal in that chapter with how deeply influenced I was by
what I lived in the States (which is to say, by those who were reading
and following Marcuse), and at the same time about how lacking I found
those movements in maturity, relationship with real workers, capacity
to comprehend that radical change means engaging vast sectors of society
whose members do not seem to be immediate or obvious allies. Part
of that chapter is a way in which I hint at how sexuality and revolution
tend to have been at odds and should not be, a questioning of the
limits between personal and collective liberation."
- Publications:
Play Death and the Maiden later made into a film directed
by Roman Polanski.
Book Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations, 1980-2004
(Seven Stories Press) is an excellent introduction to his work, exploring
the ways Americans apply amnesia to their yesterdays and innocence
to their tomorrows.
Book Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Gen.
Augusto Pinochet, Desert Memories (National Geographic)
Coauthor with his son Joaquin of the novel The Burning City.
Dubiel,
 Helmut
(b. 1946), since 1992 professor of Sociology at the University of Giessen
- University
homepage with vita, etc. (click on navbar at top)
- 1968-73 studied sociology in Bielefeld and Bochum
- 1983-1989 member of the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt
- 1989-1997 Director of the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt
- Selected publications:
- Wissenschaftsorganisation und politische
Erfahrung (Frankfurt 1978), translated as Theory and
Politics (MIT 1986)
- Die Demokratische Frage (with Günther
Frankenberg und Ulrich Roedel), 1990
- Demokratie und Schuld, München
1999
Dumain,
Ralph (b. ), "Librarian-Archivist-Information Specialist-Researcher-Scholar."
- Dumain's extensive website autodidactproject.org
includes his own and other texts about Herbert's work, including:
Dutschke,
 Rudi
(1940-1979), German student activist, was a friend who shared
many elements of Herbert's vision of society, if not how to change it.
Farr, Arnold L. ( b. 19xx), Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director, Africana Studies Program
- Ph.D. Kentucky
- faculty page at St. Joseph's University Dept. of Philosophy, Philadelphia
- founder/president of the International Herbert Marcuse Association in 2005
Feenberg,
Andrew (b. 1943), formerly at San Diego State University,
since 2003 Professor of the Philosophy of Technology at Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada
Fuchs,
Christian (b. ca. 1974), studies computer science; since
ca. 2002 lecturer and research associate at the Institute of Design and
Technology Assessment at the Vienna University of Technology
Geras,
Norman (b. 1943), Professor Emeritus of Government at
the University of Manchester, former editor of New Left Review.
Golan,  Galia.
Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
- Prof. Jerry Z. Muller, a Marcuse-scholar at the
Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, wrote in this site's
guestbook: "Another
distinguished student of Herbert's (rather more solid than either
Hoffman or Davis) is Prof. Galia Golan,
professor of Russian studies at Hebrew University, and long a stalwart
of Peace Now." (Guestbook, Oct. 15, 2002)
- born in Cincinnati, Ohio, B.A. Brandeis University, diplome from
the Sorbonne, Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She emigrated
to Israel in 1966 and has been on the faculty of the Hebrew University
since 1967. Active in Peace Now since 1978.
Gonsalves, Brian.
(b. ca. 1979). Avid reader with interest in philosophy. Works
as a security guard in Orange county.
- Registered the domain name herbertmarcuse.com,
which was basically a page of links. The Internet
archive has copies from Sept. 2001 to Sept. 2004.
- His gonsalves.org website
includes an autobiographical
essay in which Brian writes the following:
"The last time that literature induced a major shift in my world
view was 1999; during a brief respite from my depression I first tackled
the philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Associated with the neo-Marxist Frankfurt
School, Marcuse was extremely influential upon the radical Left in
the 1960’s. His philosophy is a highly original synthesis of Hegel,
Marx, and Freud. A materialist aestheticism permeates his thought
(perhaps this is what attracted me to it) and yet in his analysis
of both society and the individual there is much depth. Though he
is primarily concerned with the beautiful, the true and the good are
not neglected to the extent that they are in Nietzsche. Marcuse changed
my way of thinking by directing my attention toward the social organism.
After years of blind individualism I had forgotten that I too was
part of society and that many of my own problems were of a universal
nature. In Eros and Civilization Marcuse draws attention to the fact
that society demands of its members a level of repression over and
above what is needed to defeat scarcity and provide for the commonweal.
Technology has made feasible a drastic reduction of the amount of
overall labor engaged in by man, opening up the utopian possibility
of a society based around leisure and play. Nevertheless, the culture
of toil is perpetuated by an obsolete work ethic and by the manufacture
of false needs through advertising. People must continue to work full-time
in order to buy mass-advertised gadgets and luxury items. This over-consumption
is fostered so as to support the over-production which keeps everyone
working. The absurdities of advanced capitalism are further explored
in Marcuse’s second great work, One-Dimensional Man. The book’s central
point is that modern society’s totalitarian nature almost excludes
the possibility of there arising any genuine opposition to it. The
proletariat, stupefied by mass media, has itself become a counter-revolutionary
force. High art, once a gateway to an alternative dimension, has lost
its transcendental quality through being commercialized. Philosophy
also has lost its ability to oppose society as critical thought forms
(as in Hegel and Marx) have given way to a shallow positivism. Writing
in the late sixties, Marcuse did see a viable oppositional force in
the student radicals. He quickly became their guru.
As I recognized that Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man
were thoroughly applicable to the 1990’s I became angry. Less and
less did I feel guilty about not fitting into this society. More did
my alienation make me determined to fight the establishment. My chance
came in December 1999 with the convention of the World Trade Organization
in Seattle. I caught a bus to the city and joined thousands of people
protesting the order of global corporate capitalism. In all honesty
it was exhilarating to take part in that small piece of history. When
I got home, however, my enthusiasm waned. Neither Herbert Marcuse
nor memories of Seattle could keep me from slipping back into my usual
depression."
Habermas,
 Jürgen (b.
1929) is by far the best known member of this "second generation"
of critical sociologists. On Habermas see the
Hoffman,
Abbie (1936-1989), after graduating from Brandeis University
(where he studied with Herbert) in 1959,  Hoffman
received an MA from Berkeley. In 1966 he was a member of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, in 1967 a co-founder of the Youth
International Party (Yippie), and was one of the "Chicago Seven"
arrested at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He is best known
for his creative protests, for example in 1967 at the New York Stock and
the Pentagon. In 1987 he was arrested for the 42nd time while protesting
CIA recruitment at UMass.
Honneth,
Axel (b. 1949), professor of philosophy, since 2001 director
of the Frankfurt Institut für Sozialforschung
Ireland,
Doug (b.1946), radical political journalist and media
critic.
- Writer and columnist
 for
the pre-Murdoch New York Post, Village Voice (serving
for seven years as its chief media critic), the New York Observer,
and the Parisian daily Liberation, The Nation, L.A.
Weekly, and other publications. He is also a contributing editor
of POZ magazine and In These Times, and the former media critic for
TomPaine.com. Prior to 1977 he worked on the staff of four presidential
campaigns for liberal Democrats. (See Doug's
blog bio)
- In July 2005 he wrote an excellent 107th
birthday tribute to Herbert on his blog DIRELAND.
In an e-mail to friends and colleagues soliciting reminiscences he wrote
the following:
"It just kills
me, when I'm invited to talk to college classes, or groups of younger
activists, that when I mention Marcuse's name, the kids have eyes like
refrigerators -- they've never heard of him. The historical-cultural
illiteracy of today's youth bodes very badly for the future. And dear
old Herbert, who has so much to teach them today, is quite ignored...
So, may I ask you to help light a little candle against this darkness
and call attention to him? I've expanded this post considerably since
it was first put up yesterday, and I think it now has enough material
to titillate the younger readers and make them want to explore his writings...."
Jacoby,
Russell (b. 1949), teaches history at UCLA (UCLA
webpage).
- On Oct. 29, 2004, Jacoby wrote the following in an e-mail to Harold
Marcuse:
"I just stumbled
upon your HM site. Wow. Very impressive. You know for what it is worth,
I consider myself a student of HM (although I did not study with him.)
He wrote a blurb to my first book ("Social Amnesia"), etc.,
etc."
- "Marcuse and the New Academics: A Note on Style," Telos
no. 8 (Summer 1971)
- Books:
- Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary
Psychology (Beacon Press, 1975; Transaction, 1997)($25
at amazon)
- The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in
the Age of Academe (1987, 2000)($14
at amazon)
- Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an
Anti-Utopian Age (Columbia University Press, 2005). ($25
at amazon)
- several other works listed on his UCLA page.
- January 2005
review of Herbert's Collected Papers, vol. 3, published in The
Nation
- Nation's
listing of articles Jacoby has written for The Nation
Jansen,
 Peter-Erwin
(b. 1957), studied philosophy, sociology, German studies and political
science at the University of Frankfurt (with Habermas). Editor of Herbert
Marcuse and Leo Löwenthal's unpublished papers.
- Wikipedia's
Jansen page includes detailed information about his publications.
- see also Jansen's
2003-04 homepage (courtesy of the Internet Archive)
- Jansen authored the wikipedia.de
Herbert Marcuse page
- his suggestions were worked into the Marcuse
biography on LEMO, the website of the German Historical Museum (Berlin),
making it the best concise biography available to date.
- editor (with the editorial board of Perspektiven) of Zwischen
Hoffnung und Notwendigkeit: Texte zu Herbert Marcuse (Frankfurt:
Neue Kritik, 1999), 181 S.
at Herbert's grave, May 2007
|
- editor, with the editorial board of "links" magazine, of
Befreiung Denken - Ein politischer Imperativ: Materialien
zu Herbert Marcuse [full title: Befreiung denken,
ein politischer Imperativ: ein Materialienband zu einer politischen
Arbeitstagung über Herbert Marcuse am 13. und 14. Oktober 1989
in Frankfurt; Veranstalter, "links"-Redaktion, "Tüte"-Redaktion,
ASTA/Linke Liste, Uni Frankfurt, "links"-Redaktion und dem
Sozialistischen Büro. (Offenbach: Verlag 2000, [1989] 2nd corrected
edition 1990), 210 pages.
This book includes correspondence between Heidegger and Marcuse (full
text on this site) and an article by Jansen about Marcuses failed
Dissertation with Martin Heidegger.
- editor of the 6 volume German edition of Herbert Marcuse's unpublished
papers, Nachgelassene Schriften. More information
on this site at pubs/jansen/nachgelassen.htm
- publisher
zu Klampen's Jansen bio page
- a search of the zu
Klampen website with the keyword Marcuse will bring up a page with
detailed descriptions of each volume.
- article "Student
Movements in Germany, 1968-1984" in Negations 3(1998);
contributors blurb, issue
introduction
- editor of "Das
Utopische soll Funken schlagen: Zum 100. Geburtstag von Leo Löwenthal"
(page now only at Internet Archive).
Karim, Manjur (b. 19xx),
Dept. of Sociology,
Culver-Stockton College, Canton Missouri
Kellner,
 Douglas (b. 1943), professor of the philosophy of education at UCLA
- Kellner's UCLA homepage
- maintains the Illuminations website with his writings
on the Frankfurt School (originally at the University of Texas/Austin;
see Marcuse
page on the UCLA version)
- author of Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins, 1989), 270 pages
- editor of the projected 6-volume edition of Herbert's unpublished
papers in English
more information on this site at pubs/kellner/papers.htm.
- In April 2005 seven of Kellner's UCLA students presented at the conference
of the American Educational Research Association. session
and paper abstracts on News & Articles Page.
Kofler, Leo
(1907-1995), independent Marxist
Langman, Lauren. (b. 19xx) , professor at the Loyola University in Chicago
- Loyola University Sociology Dept. Langman faculty webpage
- Dr. Langman is primarily a social theorist writing in the tradition of the Frankfurt School-especially their early concerns with character and culture, which currently inform questions of identity and hegemony in a global age. His theoretical writing examines the nature of self, subjectivity and modernity dealing with questions such as agency, or its lack, as alienation. His substantive research interests concern the dialects of political economy, culture and identity in such varied forms as Islamic fundamentalism, alternative globalization movements and the carnivalization of culture. Dr. Langman has widely published in these areas and has a forthcoming book on the Carnivalization of America.
- Langman's review of Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (2005)
Laudani, Raffaele (b. 196x?), young scholar at the University of Bologna and temporarily (2004-05) also at Columbia University
- Fall 2004: visiting scholar at Columbia's department of history with a project on US-American theories of disobedience; Fall 2005 teaching a course on 'Theories of Disobedience in Modern and Contemporary Political Thought' in the political science department.
- editor of Italian edition of Herbert's unpublished papers.
This is the first book in a series titled "Marcusiana," which will ultimately republish Hegels Ontologie and Herbert's essays on the concept of freedom and progress in Freud (first published in 1968 in a small volume Psicoanalisi e politica, by Laterza).
- Monographs about Marcuse:
- Il Pensiero politico di Marcuse (2000)(see Books About page)
- Oltre l'uomo a una dimensione: Movimenti e controrivoluzione preventiva (2005)
- Politica come movimento: Il pensiero di Herbert Marcuse (Edizione del Mulino, 2005), 336 pages. The first Italian book discussing all of Marcuse's works, including materials from the archive. (for more information, see Book About page)
- On-line publication of Italian translations of Herbert's 1943 and 1951 memos with an introduction at storicamente.it (June 2005).
Lee, Donald C. (b. 1936), professor at the University of New Mexico
- according to a nice anecdote in a March
23, 2005 Marcuse guestbook entry by Scott Craig, a former philosophy
major at UNM, Lee was one of Herbert's TAs at UCSD.
- BA in History and Philosophy at Pomona College; Fulbright Scholar
at the University of Tuebingen, Germany;
 Marine
Corps Officer; study of French at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
- MA in Philosophy at UC Berkeley
- Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego
- taught Philosophy at the University of Mexico for 25 years, and at
Shaanxi Teacher's University in Xian, China, the year ending in the
Tiananmen Square incident in 1989.
- now retired in La Jolla
- A differential study of California junior college transfer students
at the University of California, Berkeley [by] Donald C. Lee [and] Sidney
Suslow.
Publisher Berkeley: Office of Institutional Research, University of
California, 1966.
- Toward a sound world order: a multidimensional, hierarchical ethical
theory (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1992)
Leiss,
 William
(b. 1939), Professor, School of Policy Studies
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (Leiss's
homepage)
- one of Herbert's students at Brandeis (M.A. in the History of Ideas
Program, 1963), and UCSD (Ph.D., 1969)
- author of, among many other titles (his
site's book list),
The Domination of Nature (1974, reprinted 1994).
- "Husserl and the Mastery of Nature," in Telos no.
5 (Spr. 1970)
- 4/20/04
guestbook entry.
- author of a response to a review of One Dimensional Man in
the NYRB in 1964 (archive
copy).
- On his profile page as director of the Royal Society of Canada, we
find the following anecdote: "Marcuse,
who had learned his own craft with two of the most famous philosophers
of the twentieth century, Husserl and Heidegger, before fleeing from
Germany in 1932, ran his evening graduate seminars thus: When the door
closed on the room the outside world was suspended (the world in which
many of us had spent the preceding day in antiwar activities) and the
'text' was opened before us. In the seminar I remember best, the text
was the section known as the 'Doctrine of Essence' in Hegel's Greater
Logic, the section that begins with the chapter on 'Being and Nothing.'
We students were asked in turn to read a sentence and say what we thought
it meant in our own words. In the course of a three-hour seminar we
covered on average five pages of text; this seminar lasted twenty weeks,
so after eight months of wrenching effort we had completed a hundred
pages. When we complained, we were told that in the 1920s Marcuse had
attended Heidegger's seminar on Aristotle's Metaphysics, and in six
months the class never got beyond the first page of the Greek text.
But that class (and we) learned how to read a difficult text."
Lettau, Reinhard (1929-).
 Professor
emeritus of literature, UCSD, colleague and friend of Herbert's. Born
in and retired to Germany.
- 1960 Harvard (?) Dissertation: Utopie und Roman: Untersuchungen
zur Form des deutschen utopischen Romans im 20. Jahrhundert
- wrote, among other things: Taeglicher Faschismus: Amerikanische
Evidenz aus 6 Monaten (Munich: Hanser, 1971), 311 p.
- Lots of interview footage in documentary film Herbert's Hippopotamus
Masslau,
Herbert, an economist, anti-nuclear
activist, and former (1988-95) city councilmember in Lingen (Emsland)
- commented some quotations from a 1970 Kursbuch article by
Herbert, which he relates to the current (post-9/11/01) "patriot
act" situation in the US
- Masslau's
US Fascism page. [added Sept. 2004]
Mattick,
 Paul
(1904-1981), fellow German emigre, Marxist sociologist and economist;
independent scholar after McCarthyism
- See Wikipedia
Mattick page: One of his important works was Critique
of Herbert Marcuse: The one-dimensional man in class society (1969,
1972), in which he forcefully rejected the thesis according to which
the proletariat, as Marx understood it, had become a "mythological
concept" in advanced capitalist society. Although he agreed with
Marcuse's critical analysis of the ruling ideology, Mattick demonstrated
that the theory of one dimensionality itself existed only as ideology.
Marcuse subsequentially affirmed that Mattick's critique was the only
serious one to which his book was subjected.
McCarthy, George E.
 (ca.
1946-), Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio since
1979.
- B.A. summa cum laude, Manhattan College, 1968
M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy, Boston College, 1972
M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology, the New School for Social Research, 1979
- Kenyon faculty web page,
personal
web page
- selected publications
- 1987
review of Peter Lind's 1985 book Marcuse and Freedom
- Marx' critique of science and positivism : the
methodological foundations of political economy (Boston: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1988)
- Dialectics and decadence: echoes of antiquity
in Marx and Nietzsche (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield,
1994).
- Romancing antiquity: German critique of the
Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas (Lanham, Md: Rowman &
Littlefield, 1997)
- Objectivity and the silence of reason: Weber,
Habermas, and the methodological disputes in German sociology (New
Brunswick: Transaction, 2001).
Miedzian, Myriam
Malinovich:  former professor of philosophy (Brooklyn College,
Rutgers, San Diego State), lecturer and author of books, articles, Op-Eds,
and blogs on social, cultural, and political issues.
- Ph.D in philosophy, Columbia University, 1964: "Gilbert Ryle and Jean-Paul Sartre: a comparative study of two theories of mind."
- Many of her articles
(including an interview with Herbert and an article about him) appear on her
website: myriammiedzian.com:
- On August 7, 2007 Myriam Miedzian wrote in an e-mail:
Now for a bit of personal history. My ex-husband Stanley Malinovich taught philosophy at UCSD from 1967 to 1972. I was relegated to San Diego State—very typical at the time. I also taught philosophy.
We soon became friends with Herbert and Inge. We were both very fond of them. Unlike some Marxists and other left wingers we had known their concern was not just with humanity, but also with people. They were as kind and considerate with the person who cleaned their house as with illustrious colleagues. Herbert had a great sense of humor. I still smile when I think about how he called my older daughter Brunhilde when she was a baby—she was known to scream quite a bit. (Her real name is Nadia and by the way, she got her Ph.D. in Modern European History from Michigan—her area is French Jewish History. She got there in ’91, so you just overlapped one year.)
- In 1981: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baruch College of the City University of New York.
- Books:
- Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking The Link Between Masculinity And
Violence (Doubleday 1991, revised edition Lantern 2002)
- Generations: A Century Of Women Speak About Their Lives (The Atlantic
Monthly Press, 1997)
- Op-Eds and Blogs include: Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Miami Herald,
Philadelphia Enquirer, Seattle Times, Huffington Post
- Public Speaking and Media: Princeton, Harvard, Duke, California
Attorney General & Department of Education Conference, Barcelona II
International Citizens Meeting, Charlie Rose, Larry King. Also advised the
Clinton Administration’s Violence Prevention Task Force, and testified
before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Children,
Youth, and Families.
Moyers,
Bill. (1934-) , television journalist (retired 2004), practitioner
of "deep-think" journalism.
- print journalist, ordained Baptist minister, press secretary to President
Lyndon Johnson, and newspaper publisher before coming to television
in 1970. See museum.tv
biography.
- In a 1987
essay in New Perspectives Quarterly, "Second Thoughts:
Reflections on the Great Society," Moyers wrote:
' Compromise with
the Powers That Be
In 1965, I sent to the President an essay by Herbert Marcuse, the leftist
philosopher so admired by the student movement, in which Marcuse applauded
LBJ's objectives, but doubted the government's ability to stay the course.
"Rebuilding the cities, restoring the countryside, redeeming the
poor and reforming education," said Marcuse, "could produce
nondestructive full employment. This requires," he said, ''nothing
more, nothing less than the actual reconstruction outlined in the President's
program. But the very program," he said, "requires the transformation
of power structures standing in the way of its fulfillment."
Muller, Jerry Z.
(1954-),  Professor at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC; main
fields: modern European intellectual history; modern Germany
- Muller's faculty
webpage with CV, publications, syllabi
- BA in history from Brandeis, 1977; PhD., history, Columbia 1984
- selected books:
- The other god that failed : Hans Freyer and
the deradicalization of German conservatism
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).
- Adam Smith in his time and ours: designing
the decent society (New York: Free Press, 1993).
- (ed.), Conservatism: an anthology of social
and political thought from David Hume to the present (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997).
Müller, Tim B. (1978-), intellectual historian, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Humboldt University, Berlin (since 2005), contributor to the Süddeutsche Zeitung (since 2001)
- Müller's research project at the HU (2007): "Der Gelehrte als Krieger: Ideengeschichte, Neue Linke und das OSS"
- MA in history from Heidelberg University (2004): "Herbert Marcuse, die Frankfurter Schule und der Holocaust: Ein Beitrag zur zeitgenoessischen Wahrnehmung der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungspolitik." (full text at marcuse.org; bibliography)
- Selected Publications:
- Die gelehrten Krieger und die Rockefeller-Revolution. Intellektuelle zwischen Geheimdienst, Neuer Linken und dem Entwurf einer neuen Ideengeschichte, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 33 (2007), S. 198-227
- Der Intellektuelle, der aus der Kälte kam, in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 1/4 (2007), S. 5-18.
- Die geheime Geschichte des Herbert Marcuse, in: Ästhetik & Kommunikation 129/130 (Herbst 2005), S. 131-141.
- review of Nachgelassene Schriften Band 3: Philosophie und Psychoanalyse, in Süddeutsche Zeitung 4. Jan. 2003 (text at buecher.de)
- review of Nachgelassene Schriften Band 4: Die Studentenbewegung, in Süddeutsche Zeitung 29. Juli 2004 (text at buecher.de)
- review of Nachgelassene Schriften Band 5, Feindanalysen in Süddeutsche Zeitung [coming 2007-08] (text at buecher.de)
- review of Adorno-Horkheimer Briefwechsel, 1950-1969, in Süddeutsche Zeitung 5. Oktober 2004 (excerpt at perlentaucher.de; full text on this site) (with discussion about Marcuse)
- Bearing Witness to the Liquidation of Western Dasein: Herbert Marcuse and the Holocaust, 1941-1948, in: New German Critique 85 (2002), S. 133-164 (pdf)
Negt,
 Oskar
(b. 1934), Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Hannover (since
1971)
- Wikipedia Negt page
- co-author of Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis
of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere (Theory and History
of Literature)(Univ. of Minnesota, 1993)
- main publication (with Alexander Kluge): Geschichte und Eigensinn
- co-editor of journal Hannoversche Schriften
Nicholsen,
Shierry
Weber
 (b.
1941), visiting professor of German Studies, private psychoanalytic practice
- Shierry's current website (2007)
- contributor to Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left,
edited by John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes (Kansas, 1994)
- translator of works by Adorno and other critical theorists, including
Herbert's Five Lectures (1970)
- publications include:
- "Aesthetic experience and self-reflection
as emancipatory processes: two complementary aspects of critical
theory" (UC Irvine Social Science Working Paper 65, 1975)
- Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's
Aesthetics (MIT Press, 1997)
- The Love of Nature and the End of the World:
The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern (MIT Press,
2002)
- University
of Washington faculty page
- Ph.D., Comparative literature, Cornell University 1975.
- M.A., Counseling, California State University at Northridge, 1974
.
- M.A., German literature, Cornell University 1965.
- B.A., English literature, Cornell University 1963.
Raulet,
Gérard  (b.
1949), Professor of German Philosophy and Literature at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines in Fontenay- St Cloud,
and Research Program Director at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in
Paris.
- author of: Herbert Marcuse: philosophie de l'émancipation
(Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1992), 254 p
- Selected publications: Historismus, Sonderweg und dritte Wege,
Frankfurt/M. u.a. 2000. Vom Parergon zum Labyrinth, Wien 2001
(Hrsg. mit Burghart Schmidt). Marx démocrate. Le manuscrit
de 1843, Paris 2001 (Hrsg. mit Etienne Balibar). Max Scheler.
L'anthropologie philosophique en Allemagne dans l'entre-deux-guerres,
Paris 2002 (Hrsg.).
Reitz,  Charles
(b.), teaches philosophy and German at Kansas City, KS Community College
- KCKCC homepage
- courses: Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, and Logic; also Education
in a Multicultural Society
- author of rt, alienation, and the humanities : a critical engagement
with Herbert Marcuse / (SUNY Press, 2000). See entry
on Books About page.
Roth,
  Roland
(b. 1949), Professor für Politikwissenschaft am Fachbereich Sozial-
und Gesundheitswesen at the Fachhochschule Magdeburg
- author of Rebellische Subjektivität: Herbert Marcuse und
die neuen Protestbewegungen (Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 1985),
338 p.
- Research areas:
Social Protests, New Social Movements, Citizenship, Towns in the process
of globalization, regulation theory
- Roth's
Magdeburg faculty page
Shapiro,
Jeremy J.   (1940-),
is senior consultant for academic information projects and professor of
human and organization development at the Fielding Institute. His current
work is in the critical theory of information technology and the information
society, with special emphasis on simulation as a paradigmatic form of
one-dimensionality and technological rationality.
- Fielding
Graduate University faculty page
- In July 2005 Jeremy e-mailed the following:
"Negations
was my main contribution to getting Herbert's work known in greater
depth. After I returned to the U.S. in 1965 from studying in Frankfurt
for four years, which included getting to know the early Institut für
Sozialforschung work that was untranslated into English and therefore
unknown in the English-speaking world, I convinced Beacon Press to put
out a translation of some of his most important essays from the 1930's.
I translated several of these, and retranslated his Max Weber essay.
These were published as Negations. That began the phase of
the assimilation of the early Frankfurt School work, i.e. work prior
to Reason and Revolution and The Authoritarian Personality,
into American and British intellectual life."
- Publications include:
- 1970: "One-Dimensionality: The Universal
Semiotic of Technological Experience," in: Paul Breines (ed.),
Critical Interruptions: New Left Perspectives on Herbert Marcuse
(New York: Herder and Herder, 1970)
- 1972: "The Dialectic of theory and practice
in the age of technological rationality; Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen
Habermas," in: Dick Howard and Karl E. Klare (eds.), The
unknown dimension: European Marxism since Lenin (New York:
Basic Books, 1972) [UCSB: 0]
- 1977 Brandeis dissertation: The concept of
embeddedness in nature: Marx and the self-reflection of history
(Ann Arbor: Xerox University Microfilms, 1977), xv, 246 leaves.
Bibliography: leaves 233-246.
- 1979: at a memorial event after Herbert's death,
Kurt Wolff read this text by Jeremy, which was subsequently published
in Telos
- 1984: "Herbert Marcuse and Radical Therapy,"
in: Issues in Radical Therapy 10:4(1984)
- 1998: with Valerie Malhotra Bentz, Mindful
Inquiry in Social Research (Sage 1998), an introduction to
research in the social sciences and humanities in which critical
theory plays an important role
- 2003: "Digitale Simulation: Theoretische
und geschichtliche Grundlagen”, in Zeitschrift für kritische
Theorie 17(2003).
- translator of some of Herbert's works
- 1968 Negations:
Essays in Critical Theory; with translations
from the German by Jeremy J. Shapiro (London: Penguin, 1968; Boston:
Beacon, 1969; London: Free Association, 1988), 290 p.
- "On Hedonism," by Herbert Marcuse; translated
by Jeremy J. Shapiro, in: Wolfgang Schirmacher (ed.) German
20th-Century Philosophy: The Frankfurt School (New York: Continuum,
2000), xx, 244 p. [UCSB: B3183.5 .G47 2000][This essay is also included
in Negations.]
Sherover-Marcuse,
 Erica
(1938-1988), Herbert's student and third wife
- detailed information
on this site at people/ricky/ricky.htm.
- see especially Bettina Aptheker's
1989 illustrated biographical article: page
1, page
2, page
3
- Ricky's main publication is her dissertation Emancipation and
Consciousness: Dogmatic and Dialectical Perspectives in the Early Marx
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), 211 pages
Slaner, Stephen E.
(b. ca. 1940), teaches part-time at Northeastern University (political
science) and Bunker Hill Community College (sociology) in Boston
Tebano,
Elena (b.196x?), Italian Marcuse-scholar
- Article on Herbert's "Proust-Notizen" and their relationship
to Eros and Civilization:
"Le nuove 'Proust Notizen' nella genesi di Eros e civiltà,"
in Belfagor, 57:6(30 novembre 2002) (n. 342), 693-701. (full
text available)
- In the 2004 issue no. 22 of the French journal Genesis, "Philosophie"
(journal
contents):
Marcuse: réflexions sur l'autoritarisme et sur la construction
d'une théorie critique, p. 143
Inédit: Manuscrits de Marcuse, présentés par Elena
Tebano, p. 157
- In Dec. 2002 Elena described the projected article
in an e-mail: "I'm analyzing the first version of a Marcusean
essay about Pareto, which was published 1936 in the 'Studien ueber
Autoritaet und Familie'; of the Institute for Social Research. The
review is concerned in 'critique genetique' and my article will
be a rather philological one. I also will try to describe the way
Marcuse worked and wrote."
Varela, Nicolás Alberto González  (b. 1960, Argentina), now Seville, Spain
- Studied philosophy and psychology (Ph.D.), with focus on the political philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger
- 1988-1998 taught political philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
- journalist of culture in diverse magazines and newspapers
- translator and publisher in several editorials (including EUDEBA universitary editors).
- for Varela's published articles see his blog:
http://fliegecojonera.blogspot.com/ (since April 2006)
- For several of his articles, see this page at the Instituto de Ciencias, Artes y Literatura Alejandro Lipschütz
http://www.icalquinta.cl/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=45
- a compilation on Heidegger and his political writings is forthcoming
- He contributed more than a dozen book cover images of Spanish translations and secondary literature to this site.
Weinstein,
Jeff (b. ca. 1950), culture columnist and Fine Arts Editor
for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
- previously worked for 17 years as restaurant critic and an arts writer
and senior editor at New York's Village Voice, and has written
for Artforum magazine, the New Yorker, the Advocate
and other publications.
- Was a graduate student at UCSD in the late 1960s.
- For his reminiscence of Herbert's influence on him at that time, see
this 107th
birthday entry on Doug Ireland's blog:
"I was a graduate
student at UCSD, usually called La Jolla, in the department of English
and American literature from 1969 to 1973. For many reasons, I became
active in campus and off-campus politics – but I did not veer in the
usual left direction. I was firmly against the war in Vietnam, and even
more strenuously supported the unionizing of the United Farm Workers
under the heroic Cesar Chavez. But my core belief, and in retrospect
my only authentic political passion, was founded in my identity as a
recently declared gay man. I was, for a while, the first and only out
person on the campus. It was not a popular or attractive position to
take ... "
(for more, see the blog
entry )
- On Marcuse & gays/glbtq issues, see this Encyclopedia
of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture's
Marcuse entry
- Philly
Inquirer columnists page on Weinstein
- May 1997 Philly citypaper.net
article on Weinstein's move from NYC
Williams, David Rhys
- September
07, 2004 guestbook entry: "A
student of a student of Professor Marcuse. Had the good fortune to meet
with Professor Marcuse half a dozen times or so in preparation of my
dissertation, "Marcuse's Concept of Alienation:The Problematic
of 'Mimesis'."
- OCLC: dissertation University of Southern California 1980, 514 ms.
pages
Wolf,
Frieder Otto (b. 1943),   private
lecturer in philosophy and political science at the Berlin Free University.
Wolff,
Karl Dietrich (b. 1943) ,
publisher (Verlag Stroemfeld/Roter Stern), former national chairman of
the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (SDS) in 1967-68.
- In October 2005 he e-mailed: "Just
having found your website, I would like to inform you that I will speak
on Herbert Marcuse in Starnberg on October 14, 2005. [see
entry on Events page]
I was Bundesvorsitzender (national chairman) of SDS /Sozialistischer
Deutscher Studentenbund/ in 1967/68 - and met Herbert Marcuse several
times. I founded a small publishing house in 1970, STROEMFELD/ROTER
STERN, that
still exists - we especially publish historical critical editions of
German language classics, printing facsimiles of the mss. together with
transcriptions, among others of Hölderlin, Kleist, Keller, Trakl,
Franz Kafka."
- From a 1998
conference panel biography: "...
publisher of Stroemfeld Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main / Basel.
He studied law and was Federal Chairman of the Socialistic German Student
League (SDS) from 1967 to 1968, 38 criminal proceedings. In 1970 he
founded the publishing house Roter Stern (Red Star) and in 1979 the
Stroemfeld Publishing House. He is primarily a publisher of critical
historical editions including the Hölderlin edition of Frankfurt,
the Kleist edition of Brandenburg, the Franz Kafka edition, which were
awarded several prizes for their novel documentation of handwriting
facsimiles by using typographical inscriptions (partly with CD-ROM).
KD Wolff is an executive member of the German P.E.N. Centre."
- Publishing house websites: www.stroemfeld.com;
www.textkritik.de
- Dec. 2004 Netzeitung article "Hölderlin
vom Roten Stern"
Wolin, Richard
(b. ca. 1952), professor of history and comparative literature at
the CUNY graduate center. 
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