Bøger af Herbert Marcuse

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.

"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.

In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an interpretation of the basic trends of western civilization, stressing the philosophical and sociological implications.

-- Douglas Kellner, University of Texas, Austin

Few philosophers have had a more lasting impact on the philosophy of history than Friedrich Hegel. Reason and Revolution is Herbert Marcuse's brilliant interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on political thought, from the French Revolution to the twentieth century.In a masterpiece of dialectical thought, Marcuse superbly illuminates the implications of Hegel's philosophy, rescuing it from the taint of reactionary thought that distorted or dismissed it for the early part of the twentieth century. After a masterful survey of the main elements of Hegel's philosophical system, Marcuse argues that it is Hegel the rationalist and progressive who stands in contrast to the irrationalism of Nazism, providing the crucial platform on which Marxist thought would later build and take Hegel's thought in a radical and explosive new direction. A vital book in the development of critical theory and for understanding the great battle between liberal and reactionary thought, Reason and Revolution remains essential reading today.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by J.M. Bernstein.

Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Eros and Civilization is one of his best-known books and brought him international fame.Taking his cue from Freud's view that repression of the instincts is a defining characteristic of the human mind, Marcuse fuses Freud's insight with Marx's theories of alienation and oppression. He argues that rather than our instincts turned in on themselves, it is modern capitalism itself that is preventing us from reaching the freedom we can find in a non-repressive society.A sweeping indictment of modern capitalism and consumerism that remains fresh and insightful, Eros and Civilization is a classic of activist and radical thinking that continues to fire debate and controversy today.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Douglas Kellner.

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.

An impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago.

This classic is Marcuse's masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it had on European political thought. Marcuse brilliantly illuminates the implications of Hegel's ideas with the later developments particularly Marxism.

Volume III of Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers focusing on the New Left movement for whom he provided theoretical and political guidance. The new material collected in this and accompanying volumes provides a rich and deep grasp of the era.

Includes unpublished manuscripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a rich collection of letters. Focuses on Marcuse's critical theory of contemporary society. With introduction by Douglas Kellner and afterword by Jürgen Habermas.

Offers a testimony concerning the first attempt to fuse Marxism and existentialism. This work presents an insight concerning Herbert Marcuse's early philosophical evolution.

Marcuse's classic study of Freudian thought.

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.

Includes unpublished manuscripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a rich collection of letters. Focuses on Marcuse's critical theory of contemporary society. With introduction by Douglas Kellner and afterword by Jurgen Habermas.

Penetrating critiques of technology and analyses of the ways that modern technology produces novel forms of society and culture with new modes of social control.

This collection assembles some of Marcuse¿s most important work and presents for the first time his responses to and development of classic Marxist approaches to revolution and utopia. Includes a comprehensive introduction which places Marcuse¿s thought in the context of his engagement with the main currents of twentieth century philosophy.

Volume III of Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers focusing on the New Left movement for whom he provided theoretical and political guidance. The new material collected in this and accompanying volumes provides a rich and deep grasp of the era.

Explores the role of art in Marcuse's work. This work is useful not only for those new to Marcuse, but also for specialists.