Moishe Postone
Moishe Postone | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 April 1942 |
| Died | 19 March 2018 (age 75) |
| Other names | Morris Postone |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Thesis | The Present as Necessity (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Iring Fetscher, Heinz Steinert, Albrecht Wellmer |
| Influences | G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, György Lukács, Isaak Illich Rubin, Max Weber, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Alfred Sohn-Rethel |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History, sociology |
| Sub-discipline | 20th-century German history, modern European intellectual history, social theory |
| School or tradition | Critical theory |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral students | Catherine Chatterley, Loïc Wacquant, Chris Cutrone |
| Notable works | Time, Labor and Social Domination (1993) |
| Influenced | Martin 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.