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The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Herbert Marcuse

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Herbert Marcuse
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 19
Died: 1979
Died: July 29
Philosopher
Political Theorist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Berlin
Germany
Reason
Anti
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Operational
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