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1. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 320
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(1991-10-01)
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Some of the best of the '60's
100-Dimensional Realities
Very exciting.
Trenchant social critique
A surprisingly disappointing book |
2. Eros and Civilization (Ark Paperbacks) by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(1987-10-08)
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Eros and Civilization in Context
interesting parallels
Interesting predecessor to Deleuze and Guattari
Essential reading for all Freudo-skeptics
Indispensable reading |
3. An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 104
Pages
(1971-06-01)
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Beautiful Brilliance
Pleasant surprise
H. Marcuse= A modern Day H.D. Thoreau 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 from prosperity.However, upon further and deeper reading I soon learned exactly what the author meant by his title.Marcuse sees western society as an enslaving system which crushes its members into a life of bondage towards gain.Marcuse sees a need to fight against the society and to not be a normal citizen while society dictates so much in its members' lives.I believe that although Marcuse has a place in awakening the reader against the drudgery of life, overall Marcuse is a man who is too revolutionary to ever be content in the modern state of mass society.
Everybody should read this. |
4. Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 440
Pages
(1999-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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 original insights endure.Such is the case with Herbert Marcuse's REASON AND REVOLUTION.When this study first appeared in 1940, it was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory.As its many editions bear witness, especially this one hundredth anniversary edition commemorating the author's birth, the appreciation of Marcuse's work has remained undiminished, and indeed it is today more relevant than ever before. We are now faced with a political future that initiated itself with the sudden collapse of Soviet Communism and the unexpected declaration of a "New World Order."In this rapidly changing sea of political realities, there is no better guide to where we have been and to what we might expect than Marcuse.As he well understood, turbulent and spectacular political events always ran within channels earlier set by political theory; he equally understood that it was Hegel's often unappreciated and often misunderstood theory that actually set the fundamental path toward modern political life.It is a fortunate combination to have a scholar of Marcuse's unquestioned brilliance and lucid honesty addressing the sources and consequences of Hegel's social theory. |
5. The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 104
Pages
(1979-06-15)
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Delving in the emancipatory aesthetic
Despite the rating, an important book
pithy and to the point Marcuse alsotouches upon other aspects of aesthetics, like his belief in a constantstandard allowing us to distinguish between high and low art and thequestion of the 'end of art' as posited by Bertolt Brecht and others. Nevertheless his main argument is most powerful: he ends the book bypraising art's role in representing 'the ultimate goal of all revolutions:the freedom and happiness of the individual.' Truly a valuable book forall students of art, aesthetics and philosophy.
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6. Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement With Herbert Marcuse (S U N Y Series in Philosophy of Education) by Charles Reitz | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(2000-02)
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Overcoming alienation through Arts Alienation, reification, estrangement, disempowerment, and exploitation, are some of the concepts Charles Reitz addresses. Reitz presents an elaborate and lucid discussion of Marcuse's misplaced emphasis on aesthetic dimension as a purportedly disalienating dimension and as a means to overcoming the one dimensionality of existence. Reitz's discussion of Marcuse's aesthetic finds a parallel line of discussion regarding Marxian beliefs in the causes of alienation and the means of effective dealienation leading to the dissolution of Marcuse's. The philosophical discussion is complex and requires a good knowledge of the competing philosophical orientations such as those of Dilthey, Comte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Schiller, Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger among others. Reitz's unique contribution lies not only in presenting Marcuse either as a non-Marxist or even as an anti-Marxist, but in attempting to "recall" viable and promising "theory and conduct of education" embedded in Marcuse's critical theory and work even though he finds Marcuse's argument flawed with contradictions. Marcuse's work in the United States introduced the American academics to the Frankfurt School's views of Marxism. Later Marcuse came to believe that both the Hegelian "dialectic of historical progress" and historical materialism found in classical Marxism (the inevitablity of the transition from capitalism to socialism) were not sufficiently convincing. Marcuse instead suggests the "aesthetic arguments" as a substitute for the Marxist structural and historical analysis of social change. That is, he opts for Dilthey's belief in"emotional" and "political" potential of humanities and intellectual history as opposed to Marx's historical materialism with labor as its foundation. To Marx, in a commodity driven market "art" finds its highest level of appreciation like any other commodity by the need for it and its price. Neither Marcuse believes nor Reitz is accusing him of arguing that aesthetics are free from political influence, and or neglecting the impact of commodification of sex, and the impact of abuses of the sensual and the sublime on the alienation process. Marcuse sees technical progress and the advancement of science as prerequisites for freedom, provided that their direction is altered and their goals are redefined free from the influence of alienating forces so they may become a vehicle of liberation -- "technology of liberation" -- an aesthetic morality which is vehemently opposed to the pollution of life by the "spirit of capitalism." The revolution demands a solid "real foundation" composed of the historical and the sensuous -- life instincts which must be rescued from crude materialistic reductionism. It is difficult to see these as anything but revolutionary and I am sure that Reitz agrees that it is all good materialism. Marcuse however is walking a fine line between idealism of greater good for everyone and Marxism and its emphasis on structural causes of mass misery and alienation. Marcuse adds an interesting statement regarding the interplay of objective and subjective realms which are discussed in detail by Marx. To Marcuse "[T]he term `aesthetic,' in its dual connotation of `pertaining to the senses' and `pertaining to art,' may serve to designate the quality of the productive-creative process in an environment of freedom" (Marcuse p.24).To Marx, aesthetics and in particular art in an alienated (capitalistic) environment cannot function beyond the realm of consumption. In order for arts to be liberating and disalienating, the social environment in which art is relegated to mere objects of consumption must be transformed into a free society in which art becomes art in itself. But Reitz is certainly looking at broader issues of exploitation and reification disguised and sadly presented as individual freedom regardless of the means (escapism in the form of sex, violence, sports, and consumerism) by which the whole structure is reproduced and in the spirit of postmodernism the wholehearted acceptance of these as inevitable. In the 1930s Aldous Huxley predicted the rise of sexual freedom, promiscuity, warfare, militarism and aggression accompanied by reduction in political and economic freedoms. Well aware of these similarities, Reitz presents the reader with hope and aspirations by increasing the level of anxiety as did Marcuse's lecture on the ills of capitalist societies back then. Mehdi Shariati ... Read more |
7. Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2007-04-15)
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8. Technology, War and Fascism: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 1 (Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers) by Herbert Marcuse | |
Hardcover: 296
Pages
(1998-05-08)
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Relevant and interesting early work Nonetheless, Marcuse's insight captured something about German society during the war that many observers missed. The ordinary German mind was thought by Anglo-American commentators to share in the mysticism of Hitler.
Marcuse's Genius What can be said about this collection of essays is its outline of the modern age, relating as the title suggests:"Technology, war and fascism." Often, we think of technology asbeing simply the increasing of our tools' efficacy, in all other waysbenign, that war is perpetrated by nations and leaders, and that fascism isa dead ideology based on hate, suspicion, and opposition to everthing inthe status quo.Marcuse helps us find an understanding of these elementsof the twentieth century, placing them in the context of worldcivilization, industrialization, political development, andcapitalism. In relation to my personal collection, I do not have a bookmore relevent to understanding the world, than those which Marcusecontributed. ... Read more |
9. Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 4 (Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers) (v. 4) by Herbert Marcuse | |
Hardcover: 272
Pages
(2006-12-26)
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Editorial Review Product Description The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected, misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet, as this volume demonstrates, Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society, and his writings on culture and art generate the possibility of liberation and radical social transformation. The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings, interviews and talks, including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’, reflections on Proust, and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for Marcuse’s eightieth birthday with exchange of letters; and many articles that explore the role of art in society and how it provides possibilities for liberation. This volume will be of interest to those new to Marcuse, generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social milieus of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the specialist, giving access to a wealth of material from the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt and his private collection in San Diego, some of it published here in English for the first time. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner reflects on the genesis, development, and tensions within Marcuse’s aesthetic, while an afterword by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser summarizes their relevance for the contemporary era. |
10. Counterrevolution and Revolt by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 152
Pages
(1989-01-25)
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A Short Read
An addendum written in the midst of decline |
11. A Critique of Pure Tolerance: Beyond Tolerance, Tolerance and the Scientific Outlook, Repressive Tolerance by Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 123
Pages
(1969-06)
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12. Five Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Utopia by Herbert Marcuse | |
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(1970-06)
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13. A Study on Authority (Radical Thinkers) by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 111
Pages
(2008-01-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is the first paperback edition of what is now recognized as Marcuse’s 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 Marcuse’s famous response to Karl Popper’s Poverty of Historicism, and his critique of Sartre. Customer Reviews (1)
Historical Survey of Political Authority |
14. Towards a Critical Theory of Society (Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse) (Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers) by Herbert Marcuse | |
Hardcover: 264
Pages
(2001-05-29)
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15. The Flight into Inwardness: An Exposition and Critique of Herbert Marcuse's Theory of Liberative Aesthetics by Timothy J. Lukes | |
Hardcover: 178
Pages
(1985-07)
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16. The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 3 (Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers) by Herbert Marcuse | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2004-12-08)
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17. Negations: Essays in Critical Theory by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 290
Pages
(1989-06)
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18. Herbert Marcuse's Utopia by Alain Martineau | |
Paperback: 156
Pages
(1986-06-01)
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19. Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2003-11-24)
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Essays for Marcuse's 100th Birthday |
20. Heideggerian Marxism (European Horizons) by Herbert Marcuse | |
Paperback: 228
Pages
(2005-11-01)
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