Eros and Civilization was begun the year Marcuse’s first wife died of cancer

Evidence

Here Marcuse came full circle, returning to the circumstances that had formed the starting-point for his Freud book. The dedication page reads: `Written in memory of Sophie Marcuse, 1901-1951.’ Marcuse had begun work on the book in 1951, the year in which his first wife died of cancer, after almost a year and a half of living face to face with death. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 527

Categorization

• SHARE: A single-file biographic detail — the dedication to Sophie Marcuse, 1901–1951 — is the kind of thing one sends to the person who reads Marcuse.
• XREF: connects to: Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization grew from 1950-51 Washington lectures and faced publication politics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2124
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization grew from 1950-51 Washington lectures and faced publication politics — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2124