This collection assembles some of Herbert Marcuses most important work and presents for the first time his responses to and development of classic Marxist approaches to revolution and utopia, as well as his own theoretical and political perspectives.
This sixth and final volume of Marcuse's collected papers shows Marcuses rejection of the prevailing twentieth-century Marxist theory and socialist practice - which he saw as inadequate for a thorough critique of Western and Soviet bureaucracy - and the development of his revolutionary thought towards a critique of the consumer society. Marcuse's later philosophical perspectives on technology, ecology, and human emancipation sat at odds with many of the classic tenets of Marxs materialist dialectic which placed the working class as the central agent of change in capitalist societies. As the material from this volume shows, Marcuse was not only a theorist of Marxist thought and practice in the twentieth century, but also proves to be an essential thinker for understanding the neoliberal phase of capitalism and resistance in the twenty-first century.
A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce places Marcuses philosophy in the context of his engagement with the main currents of twentieth century philosophy while also providing important analyses of his anticipatory theorization of capitalist development through a neoliberal restructuring of society. The volume concludes with an afterword by Peter Marcuse.
Introduction Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce Part 1: Studies in
Marxism
1. Review of Karl Volander: Karl Marx - Sein Leben und Sein Werk
2.
Recent literature on Communism
3. Dialectics and Logic Since the War
4. 1954
Afterword to Reason and Revolution
5. Review of George Lichtheim: Marxism
6.
Epilogue to the New German Edition of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis
Napoleon
7. The Concept of Negation in the Dialectic
8. History of Dialectics
9. Can we speak of a repression, or system of repression, specific to the
USA?
10. The Relationship of Hegel to Marx Part 2: Marxian Interventions
11.
Herbert Marcuse speaking at Cuba protest meeting, Brandeis University, May 3
1961
12. The Emancipation of Women in a Repressive Society
13. Socialism in
the Developed Countries
14. Socialist Humanism?
15. The Obsolescence of
Marxism
16. Revolutionary Subject and Self-government
17. The Realm of
Freedom and the Realm of Necessity
18. The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of
Necessity. A Reconsideration
19. Re-examination of the Concept of revolution
20. Angela Davis and Herbert Marcuse: KPIX Newsclips transcription of Angela
Davis/Herbert Marcuse at Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, October 24, 1969
21. Prof.
Herbert Marcuse speaking at a rally for Angela Davis, Berkeley, October 24
1969 (full transcript)
22. Herbert Marcuse, NBC, January 31, 1971, On Angela
Davis Part 3: Lectures and Interviews on Marxism, Revolution and the
Contemporary Moment
23. Obsolescence of Socialism?
24. Professors as State
Regents
25. Herbert Marcuse: Philosopher of the New Left
26. Varieties of
Humanism: Herbert Marcuse talks with Harvey Wheeler
27. Revolution 1969:
Discussion with Henrich von Nussbaum
28. ACLU Conference presentation on
civil liberties, May 21 1969, and Marcuse letter on Civil Liberties
29. Can
Communism be Liberal?
30. Marx and Para-Marx on capitalist Contradictions
Part 4: Letters, Testimonies, and Responses to Critics
31. Letter to Max
Horkheimer, September 9 1942
32. Correspondence with Raya Dunayevskaya
33.
Fromm, Lowenthal, Adorno?
34. Preface to The Democratic and the Authoritarian
State
35. Soviet theory and practice
36. Letter to Karel Kosik, March 22 1963
37. On Paul Baran
38. On Changing the World: A Reply to Karl Miller
39. Reply
to my Critics, Guardian, May 1968
40. Letter by Martin Peretz on Herbert
Marcuse, September 10 1968
41. A Letter, Neues Forum, April 1970
42. On Henry
Kissinger
43. Letters to Rudi Dutschke, April 11 1970, April 16 1971, and
February 24 1973 Part 5: Marxism and Revolution in an Era of
Counterrevolution: Marcuse in the 1970s
44. Marxism and the New Humanity: An
Unfinished Revolution
45. An Interview with Herbert Marcuse, April 1978
46.
The Reification of the Proletariat
47. Protosocialism and Late Capitalism:
Toward a Theoretical Synthesis Based on Bahro's Analysis
48. Radical Change,
Lecture at Muir College, April 23 1979 Afterword: Reflections on Herbert
Marcuse and Marxism Peter Marcuse. Index
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) is an internationally renowned philosopher, social activist and theorist, and member of the Frankfurt School. He has been remembered as one of the most influential social critical theorists inspiring the radical political movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Author of numerous books including One-Dimensional Man, Eros and Civilisation, and Reason and Revolution, Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis University and the University of California before his death in 1979.
Douglas Kellner is George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is author of many books on social theory, politics, history and culture, including Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Media Culture, and Critical Theory, Marxism and Modernity. His Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, co-edited with Stephen Eric Bronner, and book Media Spectacle, are both published by Routledge. His latest book is Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere.
Clayton Pierce is an assistant professor in the department of Education, Culture, & Society at the University of Utah, USA. His books include On Marcuse: Critique, Liberation, and Reschooling in the Radical Pedagogy of Herbert Marcuse (with Douglas Kellner and Tyson Lewis), and Marcuses Challenge to Education (with Douglas Kellner, Tyson Lewis and Daniel Cho). His latest book is Education in the Age of Biocapitalism.
