Abbie Hoffman vs. Herbert Marcuse
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Abbie Hoffman
1936 – 1989
Abbot Howard Hoffman was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.
"Your universities teach you to be eternal cynics, a cynicism that can be only drowned in alcohol and diet pills and psychoanalysts and golf. Forget your cynicis…"
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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