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Moishe Postone | |
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Born | 17 April 1942 |
Died | 19 March 2018 (age 75) |
Other names | Morris Postone |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
Thesis | The Present as Necessity[1] (1983) |
Doctoral advisor | Iring Fetscher, Heinz Steinert , Albrecht Wellmer[1] |
Influences | G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Marx, György Lukács, Isaak Illich Rubin, Max Weber, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Alfred Sohn-Rethel |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History, sociology |
Sub-discipline | 20th-century German history,[2] modern European intellectual history, social theory |
School or tradition | Critical theory |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Doctoral students | Catherine Chatterley, Loïc Wacquant, Chris Cutrone[1] |
Notable works | Time, Labor and Social Domination (1993) |
Influenced | Martin Hägglund,[3] Gáspár Miklós Tamás |
Moishe Postone (17 April 1942 – 19 March 2018) was a Canadian historian, sociologist, political philosopher and social theorist. He was a professor of history at the University of Chicago, where he was part of the Committee on Jewish Studies.
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