Herbert Marcuse - Wikipedia Herbert Marcuse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist Herbert Marcuse Marcuse in 1955 in Newton, Massachusetts[1] Born (1898-07-19)July 19, 1898 Berlin, German Empire Died July 29, 1979(1979-07-29) (aged 81) Starnberg, West Germany Nationality German American Alma mater University of Freiburg Notable work Eros and Civilization (1955) One-Dimensional Man (1964) Spouse(s) Sophie Wertheim ​ ​ (m. 1924; died 1951)​ Inge Neumann ​ ​ (m. 1955; died 1973)​ Erica Sherover ​ (m. 1976)​ Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Continental philosophy Frankfurt School Western Marxism Doctoral students Angela Davis Andrew Feenberg[2] Paul Gottfried William Leiss[2] Main interests Social theory communism socialism industrialism technology Notable ideas Technological rationality great refusal[3] one-dimensional man work as free play repressive tolerance repressive desublimation negative thinking totalitarian democracy Influences Immanuel Kant G. W. F. Hegel Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Sigmund Freud Edmund Husserl Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger Influenced Norman O. Brown Angela Davis Jürgen Habermas Abbie Hoffman Douglas Kellner Bob Black Andrew Feenberg Part of a series on the Frankfurt School Major works Reason and Revolution "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" Eclipse of Reason Escape from Freedom Minima Moralia Eros and Civilization One-Dimensional Man Negative Dialectics The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere The Theory of Communicative Action Dialectic of Enlightenment Notable theorists Marcuse Adorno Horkheimer Benjamin Fromm Pollock Löwenthal Habermas Schmidt Honneth Kracauer Kirchheimer List Advanced capitalism Antipositivism Communicative rationality Critical theory Culture industry Dialectic Legitimation crisis Non-identity Popular culture Praxis Privatism Psychoanalysis Related topics Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory Freudo-Marxism Marxist humanism Western Marxism Social alienation  Philosophy portal  Society portal v t e Herbert Marcuse (/mɑːrˈkuːzə/; German: [maɐ̯ˈkuːzə]; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD.[4] He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979).[5][6][7] In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism and entertainment culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control.[8] Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US government service for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) where he criticized the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the book Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958). In the 1960s and the 1970s he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left and the student movements of West Germany, France, and the United States; some consider him the "father of the New Left".[9] His best known works are Eros and Civilization (1955) and One-Dimensional Man (1964). His Marxist scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the United States and internationally. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early years 1.2 Emigration to the United States 1.3 World War II 1.4 Post-war 1.5 The New Left and radical politics 1.6 Marriages 1.7 Death 2 Philosophy and views 2.1 Marcuse's early "Heideggerian Marxism" 2.2 Marcuse and capitalism 3 Criticism 4 Legacy 5 Bibliography 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Biography[edit] Early years[edit] Herbert Marcuse was born July 19, 1898, in Berlin, to Carl Marcuse and Gertrud Kreslawsky. His family was Jewish.[10] In 1916 he was drafted into the German Army, but only worked in horse stables in Berlin during World War I. He then became a member of a Soldiers' Council that participated in the aborted socialist Spartacist uprising. He completed his PhD thesis at the University of Freiburg in 1922 on the German Künstlerroman after which he moved back to Berlin, where he worked in publishing. In 1924 he married Sophie Wertheim, a mathematician. He returned to Freiburg in 1928 to study with Edmund Husserl and write a habilitation with Martin Heidegger, which was published in 1932 as Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity (Hegels Ontologie und die Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit). This study was written in the context of the Hegel renaissance that was taking place in Europe with an emphasis on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's ontology of life and history, idealist theory of spirit and dialectic.[11] With his academic career blocked by the rise of the Third Reich, in 1933 Marcuse joined the Institute for Social Research, popularly known as the Frankfurt School. He went almost at once into exile with them, first briefly in Geneva, then in the United States. Unlike some others, Marcuse did not return to Germany after the war. When he visited Frankfurt in 1956, the young Jürgen Habermas was surprised that he was a key member of the Institute.[12] In 1933, Marcuse published his first major review, of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. In this review, Marcuse revised the interpretation of Marxism, from the standpoint of the works of the early Marx.[11] Emigration to the United States[edit] After leaving Germany for Switzerland in May 1933, Marcuse immigrated to the United States in June 1934, where he became a citizen in 1940.[13] Although he never returned to Germany to live, he remained one of the major theorists associated with the Frankfurt School, along with Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno (among others). In 1940 he published Reason and Revolution, a dialectical work studying G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx. While a member of the Frankfurt School (also known as the Institute of Social Research), Marcuse developed a model for critical social theory, created a theory of the new stage of state and monopoly capitalism, described the relationships between philosophy, social theory, and cultural criticism, and provided an analysis and critique of German fascism. Marcuse worked closely with critical theorists while at the institute.[11] World War II[edit] During World War II, Marcuse first worked for the US Office of War Information (OWI) on anti-Nazi propaganda projects. In 1943, he transferred to the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. Directed by the Harvard historian William L. Langer, the Research and Analysis Branch was in fact the biggest American research institution in the first half of the twentieth century. At its zenith between 1943 and 1945, it comprised over twelve hundred employees, four hundred of whom were stationed abroad. In many respects, it was the site where post–World War II American social science was born, with protégés of some of the most esteemed American university professors, as well as a large contingent of European intellectual émigrés, in its ranks. These men comprised the "theoretical brain trust" of the American war machine, which, according to its founder, William J. Donovan, would function as a "final clearinghouse" for the secret services—that is, as a structure that, although not engaged in determining war strategy or tactics, would be able to assemble, organize, analyze, and filter the immense flow of military information directed toward Washington, thanks to the unique capacity of the specialists on hand to interpret the relevant sources.[14] In March 1943, Marcuse joined his fellow Frankfurt School scholar Franz Neumann in R & A's Central European Section as senior analyst and rapidly established himself as "the leading analyst on Germany.[15] After the dissolution of the OSS in 1945, Marcuse was employed by the US Department of State as head of the Central European section, becoming an intelligence analyst of Nazism. A compilation of Marcuse's reports was published in Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort. He retired after the death of his first wife in 1951. Post-war[edit] In 1952, Marcuse began a teaching career as a political theorist, first at Columbia University, then at Harvard University. Marcuse worked at Brandeis University from 1958 to 1965, then at the University of California San Diego from 1965 to 1970.[16] It was during his time at Brandeis that he wrote his most famous work, One-Dimensional Man (1964).[17] Marcuse was a friend and collaborator of the political sociologist Barrington Moore Jr. and of the political philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, and also a friend of the Columbia University sociology professor C. Wright Mills, one of the founders of the New Left movement. In his "Introduction" to One-Dimensional Man, Marcuse wrote, "I should like to emphasize the vital importance of the work of C. Wright Mills."[18] In the post-war period, Marcuse rejected the theory of class struggle and the Marxist concern with labor, instead claiming, according to Leszek Kołakowski, that since "all questions of material existence have been solved, moral commands and prohibitions are no longer relevant." He regarded the realization of man's erotic nature as the true liberation of humanity, which inspired the utopias of Jerry Rubin and others.[19] Marcuse's critiques of capitalist society (especially his 1955 synthesis of Marx and Sigmund Freud, Eros and Civilization, and his 1964 book One-Dimensional Man) resonated with the concerns of the student movement in the 1960s. Because of his willingness to speak at student protests and his essay "Repressive Tolerance" (1965),[11] Marcuse soon became known in the media as "Father of the New Left."[11][20] Contending that the students of the sixties were not waiting for the publication of his work to act,[20] Marcuse brushed the media's branding of him as "Father of the New Left" aside lightly,[20] saying "It would have been better to call me not the father, but the grandfather, of the New Left."[20] His work heavily influenced intellectual discourse on popular culture and scholarly popular culture studies. He had many speaking engagements in the US and Western Bloc in the late 1960s and 1970s. He became a close friend and inspirer of the French philosopher André Gorz. Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro (author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus [trans., The Alternative in Eastern Europe]), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of "change from within."[21] The New Left and radical politics[edit] Part of a series on Libertarian socialism Political concepts Anti-authoritarianism Anti-Leninism Anti-Stalinist left Anti-statism Class conflict Classless society Community centre Consensus democracy Commune Decentralization Direct democracy Dual power Egalitarian community Free association Free love Free school General strike Libertarian possibilism Mutual aid Post-leftism Prefigurative politics Proletarian internationalism Refusal of work State capitalism Stateless society Squatting Ultra-leftism Wage slavery Workers' control Workers' council Economics Anarchist economics Anti-capitalism Anti-consumerism Cooperative Common ownership Common-pool resource Cost the limit of price Decentralized planning Economic democracy Free market Freed market Gift economy Give-away shop Guilds Inclusive Democracy Industrial democracy Laissez-faire Market abolitionism Really Really Free Market Social economy Social enterprise Socialization Socialist economics Use value Worker cooperative People Albert Andrews Avrich Bakunin Berkman Boggs Bonanno Bookchin Breton Camus Castoriadis Chomsky Czolgosz Dauvé Day Debord Dunayevskaya Durruti Fanelli Federici Ferrer Fotopoulos Fourier Godwin Goldman Goodman Graeber Greene Gorz Guattari Guérin Herzen Heywood (Angela) Heywood (Ezra) Hodgskin Hoffman Holloway James Korsch Kropotkin Landauer Lefort Liebknecht Lorenzo Lubbe Luxemburg Magón Makhno Malatesta Marcos Marcuse Margall Marx Mattick Michel Montseny Morris Negri Öcalan Pallis Pankhurst Pannekoek Parsons (Albert) Parsons (Lucy) Perlman Petrichenko Proudhon Reich Rocker Rühle Sacco Santillán Sartre Spooner Tolstoy Thompson Tucker Vaneigem Vanzetti Varoufakis Ward Warrem Wilde Zerzan Zinn Philosophies and tendencies Anarchist tendencies Anarchism Green Primitivism Individualism Egoism Free-market Organisational Insurrectionism Platformism Mutualism Syndicalism Synthesism Philosophical Social Collectivism Communism Magonism Pacifism Religious Christian Muslim Jewish Marxist tendencies Marxism Classical Marxism Libertarian Marxism Autonomism Chaulieu–Montal tendency De Leonism Johnson–Forest tendency Left communism Bordigism Communization Council communism Lettrism Situationism Marxist humanism Western Marxism Frankfurt School Freudo-Marxism Other tendencies Cantonalism Communalism Democratic confederalism Dialectical naturalism Libertarian municipalism Social ecology Democratic socialism Eco-socialism Guild socialism Inclusive Democracy Market socialism Left-wing laissez-faire Left-wing market anarchism Neozapatismo New Left Participism Utopian socialism Fourierism Significant events Diggers Enragés Paris Commune Haymarket affair Assassination of William McKinley Strandzha Commune Russian Revolution Bavarian Soviet Republic German Revolution of 1918–1919 Biennio Rosso Ukrainian War of Independence Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks (Kronstadt rebellion) Escuela moderna Mexican Revolution Reichstag fire Spanish Revolution of 1936 Uprising of 1953 in East Germany Hungarian Revolution of 1956 May 1968 events in France Prague Spring Left communism in China Hippie movement Autonomia Operaia Chiapas conflict 1999 Seattle WTO protests Argentinazo Occupy movement Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015 rebellion) Iran–PJAK conflict Rojava conflict Related topics Anarchism Anarchism and socialism Communism Left-libertarianism Libertarianism Marxism Social democracy Socialism Syndicalism  Anarchism portal  Socialism portal  Politics portal v t e Many radical scholars and activists were influenced by Marcuse, such as Norman O. Brown,[22] Angela Davis,[23] Charles J. Moore, Abbie Hoffman, Rudi Dutschke, and Robert M. Young (see the List of Scholars and Activists link below.) Among those who critiqued him from the left were Marxist-humanist Raya Dunayevskaya, fellow German emigre Paul Mattick, both of whom subjected One-Dimensional Man to a Marxist critique, and Noam Chomsky, who knew and liked Marcuse "but thought very little of his work."[24] Marcuse's 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance", in which he claimed capitalist democracies can have totalitarian aspects, has been criticized by conservatives.[25] Marcuse argues that genuine tolerance does not permit support for "repression", since doing so ensures that marginalized voices will remain unheard. He characterizes tolerance of repressive speech as "inauthentic". Instead, he advocates a form of tolerance that is intolerant of repressive (namely right-wing) political movements: Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left. Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means. They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements that promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or that oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.[26] Marcuse later expressed his radical ideas through three pieces of writing. He wrote An Essay on Liberation in 1969, in which he celebrated liberation movements such as those in Vietnam, which inspired many radicals. In 1972 he wrote Counterrevolution and Revolt, which argues that the hopes of the 1960s were facing a counterrevolution from the right.[11] After Brandeis denied the renewal of his teaching contract in 1965, Marcuse taught at the University of California San Diego. In 1968, California Governor Ronald Reagan and other conservatives objected to his reappointment,[27] but the university decided to let his contract run until 1970. He devoted the rest of his life to teaching, writing and giving lectures around the world. His efforts brought him attention from the media, which claimed that he openly advocated violence, although he often clarified that only "violence of defense" could be appropriate, not "violence of aggression". He continued to promote Marxian theory, with some of his students helping to spread his ideas. He published his final work The Aesthetic Dimension in 1979 on the role of art in the process of what he termed "emancipation" from bourgeois society.[11] Marriages[edit] Grave in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery, Berlin, where Marcuse's ashes were buried in 2003 Marcuse married three times. His first wife was mathematician Sophie Wertheim (1901–1951), with whom he had a son, Peter (born 1928). Herbert's second marriage was to Inge Neumann (1910–1973), the widow of his close friend Franz Neumann (1900–1954). His third wife was Erica Sherover (1938–1988), a former graduate student and forty years his junior, whom he married in 1976. His son Peter Marcuse is professor emeritus of urban planning at Columbia University. His granddaughter is the novelist Irene Marcuse and his grandson, Harold Marcuse, is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Death[edit] On July 29, 1979, ten days after his eighty-first birthday, Marcuse died after suffering a stroke during a visit to Germany. He had spoken at the Frankfurt Römerberggespräche, and was on his way to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of the Scientific-Technical World in Starnberg, on invitation from second-generation Frankfurt School theorist Jürgen Habermas. In 2003, after his ashes were rediscovered in the United States, they were buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery in Berlin. Herbert Marcuse and his first wife Sophie Marcuse in their New York apartment Philosophy and views[edit] Marcuse's famous concept repressive desublimation refers to his argument that postwar mass culture, with its profusion of sexual provocations, serves to reinforce political repression. If people are preoccupied with inauthentic sexual stimulation, their political energy will be "desublimated"; instead of acting constructively to change the world, they remain repressed and uncritical. Marcuse advanced the prewar thinking of critical theory toward a critical account of the "one-dimensional" nature of bourgeois life in Europe and America. His thinking could, therefore, also be considered an advance of the concerns of earlier liberal critics such as David Riesman.[28][29] Two aspects of Marcuse's work are of particular importance, first, his use of language more familiar from the critique of Soviet or Nazi regimes to characterize developments in the advanced industrial world; and second, his grounding of critical theory in a particular use of psychoanalytic thought. Both of these features of his thinking have often been misunderstood and have given rise to critiques of his work that miss the point of his targets.[30] Marcuse's early "Heideggerian Marxism"[edit] During his years in Freiburg, Marcuse wrote a series of essays that explored the possibility of synthesizing Marxism and Heidegger's fundamental ontology, as begun in the latter's work Being and Time (1927). This early interest in Heidegger followed Marcuse's demand for "concrete philosophy," which, he declared in 1928, "concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence."[31] These words were directed against the neo-Kantianism of the mainstream, and against both the revisionist and orthodox Marxist alternatives, in which the subjectivity of the individual played little role.[32] Though Marcuse quickly distanced himself from Heidegger following Heidegger's endorsement of Nazism, it has been suggested by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas that an understanding of Marcuse's later thinking demands an appreciation of his early Heideggerian influence.[33] Marcuse and capitalism[edit] Marcuse's analysis of capitalism derives partially from one of Karl Marx's main concepts: Objectification,[34] which under capitalism becomes Alienation. Marx believed that capitalism was exploiting humans; that by producing objects of a certain character, laborers became alienated and this ultimately dehumanized them into functional objects themselves. Marcuse took this belief and expanded it. He argued that capitalism and industrialization pushed laborers so hard that they began to see themselves as extensions of the objects they were producing. At the beginning of One-Dimensional Man Marcuse writes, "The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment,"[35] meaning that under capitalism (in consumer society) humans become extensions of the commodities that they buy, thus making commodities extensions of people's minds and bodies. Affluent mass technological societies, he argues, are totally controlled and manipulated. In societies based upon mass production and mass distribution, the individual worker has become merely a consumer of its commodities and entire commodified way of life. Modern capitalism has created false needs and false consciousness geared to consumption of commodities: it locks one-dimensional man into the one-dimensional society which produced the need for people to recognize themselves in their commodities.[36] The very mechanism that ties the individual to his society has changed and social control is anchored in the new needs which it has produced. Most important of all, the pressure of consumerism has led to the total integration of the working class into the capitalist system. Its political parties and trade unions have become thoroughly bureaucratized and the power of negative thinking or critical reflection has rapidly declined.[37] The working class is no longer a potentially subversive force capable of bringing about revolutionary change. As a result, rather than looking to the workers as the revolutionary vanguard, Marcuse put his faith in an alliance between radical intellectuals and those groups not yet integrated into one-dimensional society, the socially marginalized, the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, the exploited and persecuted of other ethnicities and other colors, the unemployed and the unemployable. These were the people whose standards of living demanded the ending of intolerable conditions and institutions and whose resistance to one-dimensional society would not be diverted by the system. Their opposition was revolutionary even if their consciousness was not.[36] Criticism[edit] Leszek Kołakowski described Marcuse's views as essentially anti-Marxist, in that they ignored Marx's critique of Hegel and discarded the historical theory of class struggle entirely in favor of an inverted Freudian reading of human history where all social rules could and should be discarded to create a "New World of Happiness." Kołakowski concluded that Marcuse's ideal society "is to be ruled despotically by an enlightened group [who] have realized in themselves the unity of Logos and Eros, and thrown off the vexatious authority of logic, mathematics, and the empirical sciences."[19] The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre asserted that Marcuse falsely assumed consumers were completely passive, uncritically responding to corporate advertising.[36] MacIntyre frankly opposed Marcuse. "It will be my crucial contention in this book," MacIntyre stated, "that almost all of Marcuse's key positions are false." For example, Marcuse was not an orthodox Marxist. Like many of the Frankfurt School, Marcuse wrote of "critical theory" not of "Marxism" and MacIntyre notes a similarity in this to the Left Hegelians, whom Marx attacked. Hence, MacIntyre proposed that Marcuse be regarded as "a pre-Marxist thinker". According to MacIntyre, Marcuse's assumptions about advanced industrial society were wrong in whole and in part. "Marcuse," concluded MacIntyre, "invokes the great names of freedom and reason while betraying their substance at every important point."[38] Legacy[edit] Herbert Marcuse appealed to students of the New Left through his emphasis on the power of critical thought and his vision of total human emancipation and a non-repressive civilization. He supported students he felt were subject to the pressures of a commodifying system, and has been regarded as an inspirational intellectual leader.[36] He is also considered among the most influential of the Frankfurt School critical theorists on American culture, due to his studies on student and counter-cultural movements on the 1960s.[39] The legacy of the 1960s, of which Marcuse was a vital part, lives on, and the great refusal is still practiced by oppositional groups and individuals who refuse to conform to the existing systems of oppression and domination.[36] Bibliography[edit] Books Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity (1932), originally written in German,[40] in English 1987.[41] Studie über Autorität und Familie (1936) in German, republished 1987, 2005. Marcuse wrote just over 100 pages in this 900-page study. Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (1941) ISBN 978-1-57392-718-5 Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955) ISBN 978-0-415-18663-6 Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958)[42] One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964) A Critique of Pure Tolerance (1965) Essay "Repressive Tolerance," with additional essays by Robert Paul Wolff and Barrington Moore Jr. Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (1968) An Essay on Liberation (1969) Five Lectures (1969) Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972) ISBN 978-0-8070-1533-9 The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (1978) ISBN 978-0-8070-1519-3 Essays Neue Quellen zur Grundlegung des Historischen Materialismus (1932)[43][44][45] Repressive Tolerance (1965)[26] Liberation (1969)[46] On the Problem of the Dialectic (1976) Protosocialism and Late Capitalism: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis Based on Bahro's Analysis (1980) See also[edit] After Marcuse Freudo-Marxism List of people from Berlin References[edit] ^ ci.newton.ma.us Archived 2012-10-20 at the Wayback Machine ^ a b http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/essentialmarcuse.doc ^ "The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ^ Lemert, Charles. 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ISBN 9780786749577. ^ "Herbert Marcuse's passport (Reisepaß)". Archive of the City and University Library of Frankfurt/Main, Germany. July 1931. Retrieved October 20, 2020. ^ Secret Reports on Nazi Germany. The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort by Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse & Otto Kirchheimer Edited by Raffaele Laudani (Princeton University Press 2013) p. 2 ^ Laudani, Secret Reports p3 ^ Romano, Carlin (2011-12-11). "Occupy This: Is It Comeback Time for Herbert Marcuse?". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2020-08-04. ^ Elliott, Anthony and Larry Ray. Key Contemporary Social Theorists. Blackwell Publishers. 2003. ^ One-Dimensional Man (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964), p. xvii ^ a b Kołakowski, Leszek (1981). Main Currents Of Marxism: Volume III, The Breakdown. Oxford University Press. p. 416. ISBN 978-0192851093. ^ a b c d Tom Bourne (Sept. 1979) ^ Stefan Meretz. "open theory · offene theorie: Protosozialismus und Spätkapitalismus. Versuch einer theoretischen Synthese von Bahros Ansatz (von Herbert Marcuse)". Opentheory.org. Retrieved 2013-09-06. ^ Dufresne, Todd (2000). Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8047-3885-9. ^ Davis, Angela (July 1971). "Rhetoric Vs. Reality: Angela Davis tells why black people should not be deceived by words". Ebony. 26 (9). Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company. pp. 115–120. ^ Barsky, Robert (1997). Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. p. 134. ^ marcuse.org (books about) ^ a b "Repressive Tolerance, by Herbert Marcuse (1965)". Marcuse.org. Retrieved 2013-09-06. ^ "William McGill, 75, President Who Led Columbia After Years of Distress, Dies", The New York Times, 21 October 1997 ^ Elliott, Anthony; Ray, Larry (2002-10-22). Key Contemporary Social Theorists – Google Books. ISBN 9780631219729. Retrieved 2013-09-06. ^ Mestrovic, Stjepan (1997). Postemotional Society. 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ISBN 9780135248850.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) ^ SEP ^ MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse (1970), p.2 ("false" quote); pp. 18-19 ("pre-Marxist"); re Left Hegelians: cf. pp. 19, 41, 58, 67, 72, 106; not a Marxist: p.64; advanced industrial societies, pp. 69-82, 76 (art, language, libido, welfare, work; Nazi Germany and Nixon's America), 78-79; p.106 ("invokes" quote). ^ Mann, Douglas. A Survey of Modern Social Theory. Oxford University Press. 2008. ^ Hegels Ontologie und die Grundlegung einer Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit (Frankfurt 1932). ^ Translated and introduced by Seyla Benhabib, published by MIT Press 1987. ^ The Vintage 1961 reprint "inexplicably" (Kellner, p. xi,n8) omits Marcuse's 13-page "Introduction" in the 1958 original issue by Columbia University, whose complete 1985 edition contains a new 11-page "Introduction" by Douglas Kellner, yet this edition omits Marcuse's 12-page "Preface to the Vintage Edition" of 1961. ^ Marcuse's review of 1844 writings by Karl Marx, which were later translated as Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. ^ Marcuse's review was translated by Joris de Bres in 1972 as "The foundation of historical materialism", and included at pp. 1-48 in Marcuse, From Luther to Popper (London: New Left Books 1972, London: Verso 1983). ^ Karl Marx, Early Writings (New York: Vintage 1975), pp. 279-400: "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)". ^ "Book Review: Herbert Marcuse's An Essay on Liberation Herbert Marcuse's An Essay on Liberation". Marcuse.org. Retrieved 2013-09-06. Further reading[edit] Herbert Marcuse John Abromeit and W. Mark Cobb, eds. (2004), Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, New York, London: Routledge. Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss (2007), The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse, Boston: Beacon Press. Technology, War and Fascism. Collected papers of Herbert Marcuse, volume 1. (London: Routledge 1998) Criticism and analysis C. Fred Alford (1985), Science and Revenge of Nature: Marcuse and Habermas, Gainesville: University of Florida Press. Harold Bleich (1977), The Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, Washington: University Press of America. Paul Breines (1970), Critical Interruptions: New Left Perspectives on Herbert Marcuse, New York: Herder and Herder. Douglas Kellner (1984), Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-520-05295-6. Paul Mattick (1972), Critique of Marcuse: One-dimensional man in class society Merlin Press Alain Martineau (1986). Herbert Marcuse's Utopia, Harvest House, Montreal. Alasdair MacIntyre (1970), Herbert Marcuse. An exposition and a polemic, Viking, New York Eliseo Vivas (1971), Contra Marcuse, Arlington House, New Rochelle. ISBN 0-87000-112-4 Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson, and Peter N. Funke, editors (2017), The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. Raffaele Laudani, editor (2013), Secret Reports on Nazi Germany. The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort by Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse & Otto Kirchheimer. Princeton University Press. Kurt H. Wolff and Barrington Moore, Jr., editors (1967), The Critical Spirit. Essays in honor of Herbert Marcuse. Beacon Press, Boston. J. Michael Tilley (2011). 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