Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 6

ISBN-13: 9780815371700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 456 str.

Marcuse, Herbert

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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.

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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

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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 Marcuse’s Challenge to Education (with Douglas Kellner, Tyson Lewis and Daniel Cho). His latest book is Education in the Age of Biocapitalism.