MARCK, SIEGFRIED

MARCK, SIEGFRIED (1889–1957), German philosopher. Marck, who was born in Breslau, became a professor there in 1924. After the Nazis came to power, he taught at Dijon, France, and from 1940 in Chicago. Marck's thought derives from the Marburg neo-Kantians. He compared the fundamental concepts of Kant, Hegel, and Marx in his Kant und Hegel (1917) and Hegelianismus und Marxismus (1922). He applied cassirer 's and kelsen 's concepts in his Substanzund Funktionsbegriff in der Rechtsphilosophie (1925). His main work, Die Dialektik in der Philosophie der Gegenwart (2 vols., 1929–31), develops his own "critical dialectic." Marck also wrote Der Neuhumanismus als politische Philosophie (1938), and Grosse Menschen unserer Zeit (1954). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 43 (1961), 257–8. (Richard H. Popkin)