Background
Marcuse, Herbert was born on July 19, 1898 in Berlin.
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In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer content itself with repeating the formula, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," but must now investigate the nature of human needs themselves. Marcuse's claim is that even if production were controlled and determined by the workers, society would still be repressiveunless the workers themselves had the needs and aspirations of free men. Ranging from philosophical anthropology to aesthetics An Essay on Liberation attempts to outlinein a highly speculative and tentative fashionthe new possibilities for human liberation. The Essay contains the following chapters: A Biological Foundation for Socialism?, The New Sensibility, Subverting Forcesin Transition, and Solidarity.
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The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's society as they were at the time they were written.
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In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is producing its own grave-diggers, and Marcuse suggests that their faces may be very different from those of the wretched of the earth. The future revolution will be characterized by its enlarged scope, for not only the economic and political structure, not only class relatoins, but also humanity's relation to nature (both human and external nature) tend toward radical transformation. For the author, the "liberation of nature" is the connecting thread between the economic-political and the cultural revolution, between "changing the world" and personal emancipation.
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This is the first paperback edition of what is now recognized as Marcuses most important collection of writings on philosophy. He analyzes and attacks some of the main intellectual currents of European thoughts from the Reformation to the Cold War. In a survey that includes Luther, Calvin, Kant, Burke, Hegel and Bergson, he shows how certain concepts of authority and liberty are constant elements in their very different systems. The book also contains Marcuses famous response to Karl Poppers Poverty of Historicism, and his critique of Sartre.
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(Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolut...)
Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that can take up where religion and philosophy fail and contends that aesthetics offers the last refuge for two-dimensional criticism in a one-dimensional society.
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("A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes ps...)
"A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased publication."âClyde Kluckhohn, The New York Times
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It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory. Today, the appreciation of Marcuse's work has remained high, more relevant now than ever before. In the rapidly changing context of post-Cold War political realities, there is no better guide than Marcuse to where we have been and to what we might expect. As he well understood, turbulent and spectacular political events always ran within channels earlier set by political theory; and he equally understood that it was Hegel's often unappreciated and misunderstood theory which actually set a fundamental path of modern political life. It is a fortunate combination to have a scholar of Marcuse's brilliance and lucid honesty addressing the sources and consequences of Hegel's social theory.
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(Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly...)
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.
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Herbert Marcuse's Negations is both a radical critique of capitalist modernity and a model of materialist dialectical thinking. In a series of essays, originally written in the period stretching from the 1930s to 1960s, Marcuse takes up the presupposed categories that have, and continue to, ground thought and action in our administered society: liberalism, industrialism, individualism, hedonism, aggression. This book is both a testament to a great thinker and a still vital strand of thought in the comprehension and critique of the modern organized world. It is essential reading for younger scholars and a radical reminder for those steeped in the tradition of a critical theory of society. With a brilliance of conception combined with an insistence on the material conditions of thought and action, this book speaks both to the particular contents engaged and to the fundamental grounds of any critique of organized modernity.
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Marcuse, Herbert was born on July 19, 1898 in Berlin.
Philosophy at Berlin and Freiburg (doctorate 1923). Further study in Freiburg, 1929- ^2, with Husserl and Heidegger. Left after his relations with Heidegger deteriorated.
Member of Institut fur Sozialforschung, from 1933. Exile in Geneva. New 'fork and California. Section Head, Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1950.
Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University. 1954-1967; Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1967.
(Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolut...)
(In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism ...)
(The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Mar...)
(It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that i...)
(Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly...)
(This is the first paperback edition of what is now recogn...)
(Herbert Marcuse's Negations is both a radical critique of...)
(In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dim...)
("A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes ps...)
Of the core members of the Frankfurt School. Marcuse was both the most actively political and the most concerned with a directly philosophical engagement with classical Marxism and with the phenomenology of his teachers Husserl and Heidegger. Marcuse’s early work in particular is strongly marked by the attempt to fuse Marxist and phenomenological insights, a central feature of later existentialist Marxism in France and of praxis philosophy in Yugoslavia. Along with Marxism and phenomenology, the third element—already prominent in the 1930s in Marcuse’s many essays in the Institute’s journal, the Zeitschrift fur Sozialforschung. and in his contribution to its joint project on authority and the family—was Freudian theory. His postwar work was dominated by a reworking of themes in Marx and Freud, in an ambitious theory of human emancipation. Together, Eros and Civilization (1955) and One Dimensional Man (1964) made Marcuse the paradigmatic thinker of the New Left across North America and Western Europe in the late 1960s and into the 1970s—a role which surprised but did not disturb him. Although the empirical analysis in One Dimensional Man can be questioned, and it now appears in some ways as a left variant of the theories of industrial society prominent in the 1950s and 1960s, it remains a brilliant attempt at a philosophical diagnosis of the times.
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Philosophy. Social philosophy; psychoanalytic 'heory.
Husserf Heidegger, Adorno, Horkheimer, Hegel, Marx and Freud.