Negations: Essays in Critical Theory by Herbert Marcuse.

Herbert Marcuse's Negations is both a radical critique of capitalist modernity and a model of materialist dialectical thinking. In a series of essays, originally written in the period stretching from the 1930s to 1960s, Marcuse takes up the presupposed categories that have, and continue to, ground thought and action in our administered society: liberalism, industrialism, individualism.

The struggle against liberalism in the totalitarian view of the state.--The concept of essence.--The affirmative character of culture.--Philosophy and critical theory.--On hedonism.--Industrialization and capitalism in the work of Max Weber.--Love mystified; a critique of Norman O. Brown and a reply to Herbert Marcuse by Norman O. Brown.--Aggressiveness in advanced industrial society.

Herbert Marcuse, An essay on liberation (Boston: Beacon Press) 1969. In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society.

The struggle against liberalism in the totalitarian view of the state --The concept of essence --The affirmative character of culture --Philosophy and critical theory --On hedonism --Industrialization and capitalism in the work of Max Weber --Love mystified: a critique of Norman O. Brown and a reply to Herbert Marcuse by Norman O. Brown --Aggressiveness in advanced industrial society.

Secondly, Marcuse provides comprehensive philosophical perspectives on domination and liberation, a powerful method and framework for analyzing contemporary society, and a vision of liberation that is richer than classical Marxism, other versions of Critical Theory, and current versions of postmodern theory.

The struggle against liberalism in the totalitarian view of the state --The concept essence --The affirmative character of culture --Philosophy and critical theory --On hedonism --Industrialization and capitalism in the work of Max Weber --Love mystified: a critique of Norman O. Brown and a reply to Herbert Marcuse by Norman O. Brown --Aggressiveness in advanced industrial society.

Herbert Marcuse July 19, 1898-July 29, 1979. by. Theresa M. Mackey Northern Virginia Community College. His essays of this period, many of which were later collected in Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (1968), argue in favor of rationalism and Marxist dialectical materialism. They were, in many ways, a response to the political events.

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