Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
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N 44° 04.181 W 087° 52.954
16T E 429323 N 4879991
Thorstein Veblen Marker in Valders.
Waymark Code: WM1X11
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 07/23/2007
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One of Wisconsin's most controversial figures Thorstein Bunde Veblen, was born near here July 30, 1857. In 1865 the Veblen family moved to Minnesota where Thorstein graduated from college in 1880. He was a deep thinker, usually lonely and always in debt.
After receiving a PH. D. in philosophy from Yale in 1884, Veblen taught in several colleges. He was not a popular teacher but attracted dedicated followers to his extreme social and economic ideas. In 1899, his book "The Theory of the Leisure Class" created immediate controversy.
During much of his life, Veblen remained estranged from society. His pale, sick face, beard, loose-fitting clothes, shambling gait, weak voice and desperate shyness enhanced this estrangement and deepened his loneliness. Yet the society which did not accept Veblen the man did come to value the products of his penetrating mind. His books and articles have been described as perhaps "the most considerable and creative body of social thought that America has produced".
County: Manitowoc
Location: Park
MarkerID: 176
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