birth_date: 1942-04-17 00:00:00
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name: Moishe Postone
about: Moishe Postone was a Canadian Western Marxist historian, philosopher and political economist. He was Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he was part of the Committee on Jewish Studies. Moishe Postone, son of a Canadian Rabbi, received his Ph.D. from University of Frankfurt in 1983. His research interests included modern European intellectual history; social theory, especially critical theories of modernity; twentieth-century Germany; anti-Semitism. Postone was the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Modern History and co-director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.
death_date: 2018-03-19 00:00:00