Ludwig Marcuse
- Category : 1894-births
- Type : MS
- Profile : 1/4 - Investigating / Opportunist
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Explanation 1
Biography
German-Jewish philosopher who wrote non-fiction, mostly about the role of German literature insofar as it was bound up with progressive and emancipatory philosophical and political causes. These works include subjects like Heine, Börne, Georg Büchner, the development of the tragedy, Sigmund Freud, the philosophy of happiness, and several others.
His 1962 book, Obscene: The history of an indignation revolves around leading obscenity trials: Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde (Jena, 1799), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Paris, 1857), Arthur Schnitzler's Round Dance (Berlin, 1920), D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley (London, 1960), and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (Los Angeles, 1962). A chapter is also devoted to the crusade of Anthony Comstock and the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
Ludwig Marcuse died on 2 August 1971 in Bad Wiessee, aged 77. He was not related to Herbert Marcuse, another exiled German intellectual of Jewish descent.