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Biddy Gleeson Freiburg, West Germany...
Born to an upper-class Jewish family in Berlin, Marcuse became a confirmed Marxist while studying at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. In the German idealist tradition, he had abnormally high expectations for mankind and came to the conclusion that only revolution could realize them. He was a founder of the leftist Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. With the rise of Hitler, Marcuse and other members of the institute fled to the U.S., where they had a continuing impact on academic opinion...
Heidegger's own existence was an embodiment of modern philosophy. The son of a Roman Catholic sexton in southern Germany, Martin was first attracted to the priesthood. At Freiburg University, his theological interests were deflected to mathematics and science and finally to philosophy, which for him was a matter of life and death...
...manifest ... its Being towards its own most potentiality-for-Being-that is, its Being-free for the freedom of choosing itself and taking hold of itself." He made studied verbal analogies (for example, heil, whole; heilig, holy; and heilen, to heal). His days as a professor and rector at Freiburg University revealed a power worship that has disfigured German philosophy since the days of Hegel. Sympathetic to Naziism, he declared in 1933: "The Fuhrer himself and alone is the German reality present and future...
...contrast, Von Hayek, an old-fashioned economic liberal, has been more the traditional professor. Since 1931 he has taught at the Universities of London, Chicago (from which he retired at the age of 63) and Freiburg and has often lectured in Japan. A student of business cycles and one of the few economists to foresee the 1929 crash, he was cited by the academy for his work on the relative efficiency of different types of economic systems. The system that he has criticized most is the one advocated by Myrdal. In his 1944 international bestseller, The Road to Serfdom...