Moishe Postone

Moishe Postone
Born17 April 1942
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Died19 March 2018 (age 75)
Other namesMorris Postone
Academic background
Alma materGoethe University Frankfurt
ThesisThe Present as Necessity (1983)
Doctoral advisorIring Fetscher, Heinz Steinert, Albrecht Wellmer
InfluencesG. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, György Lukács, Isaak Illich Rubin, Max Weber, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Alfred Sohn-Rethel
Academic work
DisciplineHistory, sociology
Sub-discipline20th-century German history, modern European intellectual history, social theory
School or traditionCritical theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Doctoral studentsCatherine Chatterley, Loïc Wacquant, Chris Cutrone
Notable worksTime, Labor and Social Domination (1993)
InfluencedMartin Hägglund, 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.