Essential Marcuse Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

Name: Essential Marcuse Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse
Price: 31.45 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780807014332

ISBN-10: 0807014338

ISBN-13: 9780807014332

Edition: 2007

Authors: Herbert Marcuse, Andrew Feenberg, William Leiss

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $32.55

Marketplace

2 new & used from $31.45

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuses 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, Marcuses writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to todays society as they were at the time they were written. Andrew Feenberg is a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. William Leiss, O.C., Ph.D., FRSC, has been a professor at seven Canadian universities. Both Feenberg and Leiss worked under Herbert…

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Andrew Feenberg is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Critical Theory of Technology, Alternative Modernity, Questioning Technology, Transforming Technology, and Heidegger and Marcuse.



Introduction : the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse



Political critique


The individual in the great society


Remarks on a redefinition of culture


Repressive tolerance



Marxism, existentialism, and psychoanalysis


A note on dialectic


The foundations of historical materialism


Heidegger's politics : an interview with Herbert Marcuse


Sartre's existentialism


Freedom and Freud's theory of instincts



Philosophical critique


Philosophical interlude


The affirmative character of culture


Nature and revolution