Ludwig Marcuse
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- | {{Template}}Professor '''Ludwig Marcuse''' ([[February 8]] [[1894]] in Berlin – [[August 2]] [[1971]] in Bad Wiessee, [[Germany]]), was a [[philosopher]] and [[writer]] of [[Jew]]ish origin. | + | {{Template}}Professor '''Ludwig Marcuse''' ([[February 8]] [[1894]] in Berlin – [[August 2]] [[1971]] in Bad Wiessee, [[Germany]]), was a [[philosopher]] and [[writer]] of [[Jew]]ish origin, best remembered for his 1962 non-fiction book ''[[Obscene: The history of an indignation]]'', which revolves around leading literary [[obscenity]] trials. |
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- | In 1962, his non-fiction book ''Obscene: The history of an indignation'' was published. The work revolves around leading obscenity trials: [[Friedrich Schlegel]]'s [[Lucinde]] (Jena, 1799), [[Gustave Flaubert]]'s [[Madame Bovary]] (Paris, 1857), [[Arthur Schnitzler]]'s [[La Ronde (play)|Round Dance]] (Berlin, 1920), [[D. H. Lawrence]]'s [[Lady Chatterley's Lover]] (London, 1960), and [[Henry Miller]]'s [[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|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]]. | + | |
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