books by Herbert Marcuse

books by Herbert Marcuse

books:

Herbert Marcuse

Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Herbert Marcuse

Humanity Books, 1999

"Dr. Marcuse's book deserves a warm welcome. It is the first coherent and sympathetic account in English for many years past of what a great and original thinker set out to do." -- The Times Literary Supplement It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its ...

The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics

Herbert Marcuse

Beacon Press, 1979

pithy and to the point
Herbert Marcuse, original member of the so-called 'Frankfurt School', here presents a critique of Marxist aesthetics in one of his last books. Although only 72 pages long, the book is powerful in its argument against the orthodox Marxist view that 'art represents ...

A Study on Authority (Radical Thinkers)

Herbert Marcuse

Verso, 2008

Historical Survey of Political Authority
One of the earliest in the line of leftish psychoanalytic philosophers, Marcuse remains underappreciated in the modern canon. Though this slim volume doesn't rank among his masterworks, and can be considered less than absolutely essential in a way that Eros and ...

Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Herbert Marcuse

Beacon Press, 1974

Indispensable reading
Marcuse's attempt to combine Marx and Freud, and his vision of a non-repressive civilization (as well as his views on phantasies, art, myths and even perversions as anticipiations of such a society) is one of the masterpieces of utopian thought. After reading it your ...

SOVIET MARXISM: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Herbert Marcuse

VINTAGE, 1961

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Herbert Marcuse

Beacon Press, 1991

When We Dead Awake
By pure chance I found an old, tattered copy of this in a used book shop many years ago. I still recall the bizarre sensation of realizing that someone else, much older than me and way ahead of my own experiences, had expressed so accurately, so vividly, a view of ...

An Essay on Liberation

Herbert Marcuse

Beacon Press, 1971

H. Marcuse= A modern Day H.D. Thoreau
A RESPONSE TO "Liberation from the Affluent Society" My first impression of Herbert Marcuse' speech was the title. Upon reading it I thought why would anyone want to be liberated from an affluent society? It seemed rather odd to me that anyone would want to be freed ...

Soviet Marxism
Herbert Marcuse

Columbia University Press, 1985

-- Douglas Kellner, University of Texas, Austin

Heideggerian Marxism (European Horizons)
Herbert Marcuse

University of Nebraska Press, 2005

The Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898?1979) studied with Martin Heidegger at Freiburg University from 1928 to 1932 and completed a dissertation on Hegel?s theory of historicity under Heidegger?s supervision. During these years, Marcuse wrote a number of provocative philosophical essays experimenting with the possibilities of ...

Counterrevolution and revolt

Herbert Marcuse

Beacon Press, 1972

An addendum written in the midst of decline
Marcuse's short work Counterrevolution and Revolt, written in 1972, has four sections: "The Left Under the Counterrevolution," "Nature and Revolution," "Art and Revolution" and "Conclusion." One must imagine the political situation to which Marcuse addresses the work: ...