By Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Visit Amazon's Clayton Pierce Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Clayton Pierce,
This assortment assembles a few of Herbert Marcuse’s most crucial paintings and provides for the 1st time his responses to and improvement of vintage Marxist ways to revolution and utopia, in addition to his personal theoretical and political perspectives.
This 6th and ultimate quantity of Marcuse's accumulated papers exhibits Marcuse’s rejection of the present twentieth-century Marxist concept and socialist perform - which he observed as insufficient for a radical critique of Western and Soviet forms - and the advance of his progressive inspiration in the direction of a critique of the shopper society. Marcuse's later philosophical views on know-how, ecology, and human emancipation sat at odds with some of the vintage tenets of Marx’s materialist dialectic which put the operating category because the relevant agent of switch in capitalist societies. because the fabric from this quantity exhibits, Marcuse used to be not just a theorist of Marxist idea and perform within the 20th century, but additionally proves to be a necessary philosopher for figuring out the neoliberal part of capitalism and resistance within the twenty-first century.
A accomplished creation by means of Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce areas Marcuse’s philosophy within the context of his engagement with the most currents of 20th century philosophy whereas additionally supplying very important analyses of his anticipatory theorization of capitalist improvement via a neoliberal restructuring of society. the amount concludes with an afterword via Peter Marcuse.
Read or Download Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume Six (Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers) PDF
Best communism & socialism books
The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene V. Debs
Enable the folk take center and desire in every single place, for the go is bending, the hour of darkness is passing, and pleasure cometh with the morning. —Eugene Debs in 1918 Orator, organizer, self-taught student, presidential candidate, and prisoner, Eugene Debs’ lifelong dedication to the struggle for a greater global is chronicled during this extraordinary biography by way of historian Ray Ginger.
Requiem for Marx by means of Yuri N. Maltsev (Paperback - Jun 1993)
- Politics without a Past: The Absence of History in Postcommunist Nationalism
- Machiavelli and Us
- Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?: Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917--1989
- Economic Development in Communist Rumania
- The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition)
- What's left?: radical politics in the postcommunist era
Additional resources for Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume Six (Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers)
Example text
These remarks suggest that Marcuse continued to believe in liberalizing trends in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s and that the Khrushchev administration was a vehicle of liberalization. S. S. politics was becoming more aggressive and interventionist in the Third World and was forcing the Soviet Union to focus more on competition with the West and the arms race, thus suspending Marcuse, Soviet Marxism, p. 164. Interview with Douglas Kellner on Soviet Marxism, La Jolla, December 28, 1978. , 1970).
See T. W. Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 5 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1971) p. 270. Habermas and his colleagues criticized the reductionistic anthropology of labor in Marx, which failed to conceptualize adequately symbolic interaction and pointed to a “secret positivism” in Marx. See Jürgen Habermas, Human Knowledge and Interests and Albrecht Wellmer, Critical Theory of Society (New York: Seabury, 1974). SCP, pp. 26ff. 32 Introduction contradiction between one’s essential human needs and powers and the historical conditions of capitalist society.
3–48 (hereafter SCP); page references will be to the English publication, but the translations will often be ours. We note that Marcuse’s review of Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 brought his name to the attention of a broader public, especially on the Left, than he had earlier enjoyed. Henry Pachter told Douglas Kellner of the admiration that he and others in Korsch’s circle had for Marcuse’s review when it was first published and that this was the first time they had taken notice of Marcuse (conversation with Pachter, 11 July 1978, New York).