Michel Henry vs. Herbert Marcuse
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Michel Henry
1922 – 2002
Michel Henry was a French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist. He wrote four novels and numerous philosophical works. He also lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States, and Japan.
"To radicalize the question of phenomenology is not only to aim for a pure phenomenality but to seek out the mode according to which it originally becomes a phen…"
Herbert Marcuse
1898 – 1979
Herbert Marcuse was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and then at the University of Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research, which later became known as the Frankfurt School.
"German idealism rescued philosophy from the attack of British empiricism, and the struggle between the two became not merely a clash of different philosophical …"
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