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Zeit-Messungen: Drei Vorträge und ein Interview (Edition Suhrkamp ; 770)
German
68 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1975
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Herbert Marcuse
236 books652 followersGerman-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left", his best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension. Marcuse was a major intellectual influence on the New Left and student movements of the 1960s.
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August 14, 2019
I'm gonna put two stars on it because it helped me to know and learn about Marcuse's vision, not because of agreement.
There are three essays and an interview
- Marxism and feminism
- Theory and praxis (in Marxism)
-A Failure of the New Left?
- USA, the question of organization and the political subject
To put it bluntly, I think many things he said definitely happen and happened (the reabsorption of something revolutionary into capitalist dynamics), the idea of an androgynous culture, though not in the close-to-second wave feminist manner he proposes as ideal feminism.
On the other hand there's an apparent pessimism, disdain for both theory and practice, a way to rework Marxism to his needs that seens deeply unfaithful to Marx's thought as it vindicates liberalism in the shape of 1968 revolt. The last interview is especially illuminating in this respect, even if repeating some concepts from the previous material
There are three essays and an interview
- Marxism and feminism
- Theory and praxis (in Marxism)
-A Failure of the New Left?
- USA, the question of organization and the political subject
To put it bluntly, I think many things he said definitely happen and happened (the reabsorption of something revolutionary into capitalist dynamics), the idea of an androgynous culture, though not in the close-to-second wave feminist manner he proposes as ideal feminism.
On the other hand there's an apparent pessimism, disdain for both theory and practice, a way to rework Marxism to his needs that seens deeply unfaithful to Marx's thought as it vindicates liberalism in the shape of 1968 revolt. The last interview is especially illuminating in this respect, even if repeating some concepts from the previous material
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