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...

In this classic exposition of Marxist thought, Raya Dunayevskaya, with clarity and great insight, traces the development and explains the essential features of Marx's analysis of history. Using as her point of departure the Industrial and French Revolutions, the European upheavals of 1848, the American Civil War, and the Paris Commune of 1871, Dunayevskaya shows how Marx, inspired by these events, adapted Hegel's philosophy to analyze the course of history as a dialectical process that moves "from practice to theory." The essence of Marx's philosophy, as Dunayevskaya points out, is the human...

A collection that assembles some of Herbert Marcuse's most important work and presents his syntheses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory. It shows Marcuse's attempts to create syntheses of diverse, and often conflicting, philosophical perspectives, ranging from Heidegger and phenomenology to Hegel, Marx, and Freud.

Vier der berhmtesten Aufstze von Herbert Marcuse aus den Jahren 1934 bis 1938 sind in diesem Band versammelt: Der Kamp gegen den Liberalismus in der totalitren Staatsauffassung; ber den affirmativen Charakter der Kultur; Philosophie und kritische Theorie; Zur Kritik des Hedonismus.

This volume advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting seven newly discovered, hitherto unpublished, lectures to students at Vincennes University, a branch of the Sorbonne. Marcuse's critical analysis focuses on core features of American society, its political economy, its culture, and the potential attainability of a free socialist future. These 1974 manuscripts were found in 2014 in the Marcuse archive at the University of Frankfurt by Peter-Erwin Jansen. Jansen and Charles Reitz edited and annotated the lectures for publication. Commentary by Sarah Surak, Detlev Claussen, and Douglas...