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John D. Abromeit Bio


Abromeit, John D. John Abromeit(b. 1970), Professor of History and Social Studies Education, SUNY/Buffalo State College

  • Buffalo State faculty page
  • 2003: Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, co-edited with W. Mark Cobb (New York: Routledge, 2004).
    • John co-wrote the introduction and wrote the essay (pp. 131-151): "Herbert Marcuse's Critical Enounter with Martin Heidegger, 1927-1933."
    • Google books Critical Reader page
  • 2005: Herbert Marcuse: Heideggerian Marxism, co-edited with Richard Wolin. (University of Nebraska, 2005).
  • 2006: "The Vicissitudes of the Politics of 'Life:' Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse’s Reception of Phenomenology and Vitalism in Weimar Germany." Paper presented at the conference, "Living Weimar Between System and Self," University of Indiana, September 2006.
  • 2010: “The Limits of Praxis: The Social Psychological Foundations of Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno’s Interpretations of the 1960s Protest Movements,” in: B. Davis, W. Mausbach, M. Klimke and C. MacDougall (eds.), Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in the 1960s/70s West Germany and U.S. (Berghahn Books, 2010).
  • 2010: “The Origins and Development of the Model of Early Critical Theory in the Work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse,” in: David Ingram (ed.), Politics and the Human Sciences, vol. 5 of the History of Continental Philosophy, ed. Alan Schrift (London: Acumen Publishing, 2010).
  • 2011: “Left Heideggerianism or Phenomenological Marxism? Revisiting Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory of Technology.” in: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 17:1 (March, 2010).
  • 2013: “Whiteness as a Form of Bourgeois Anthropology? Historical Materialism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of David Roediger, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse.” in: Radical Philosophy Review 16:1(2013), pp. 325–343.
  • 2018: Special issue on Herbert Marcuse in Dissonância: Revista de Teoria Crítica (in Portuguese).

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Updated: 2014