“herbert marcuse”

ONE OF THE FIRST and best attempts by a 'critical Marxist' to present a comprehensive and balanced evaluation of Soviet society and ideology...Readers sympathetic to the Soviet union will no doubt find marcuse's position presentation too critical, while others no doubt will find it not critical enou... More

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 of expression that can ta... More

A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud "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."-Clyde Kluckhohn, The New York Times... More

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 ... More

In collecting the stories from so many countries within one volume, there were problems not only of representation and story proper, but of date limitation. In all these respects I have been solely governed in principal by the attractiveness and intrinsic value of the tale, as well as giving attent... More