By Douglas Kellner, Herbert Marcuse, Clayton Pierce
Edited through Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation is the 5th quantity of Herbert Marcuse's amassed papers. Containing a few of Marcuse’s most vital paintings, this e-book provides for the 1st time his distinct syntheses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and important social conception, directed towards human emancipation and social transformation.
Within philosophy, Marcuse engaged with disparate and infrequently conflicting philosophical views - starting from Heidegger and phenomenology, to Hegel, Marx, and Freud - to create particular philosophical insights, usually missed in prefer of his theoretical and political interventions with the hot Left, the topic of earlier volumes. This assortment assembles major, and often times unknown texts from the Herbert Marcuse files in Frankfurt, together with:
• critiques of positivism and idealism, Dewey’s pragmatism, and the culture of German philosophy
• philosophical essays from the Nineteen Thirties and Forties that try to reconstruct philosophy on a materialist base
• Marcuse’s certain makes an attempt to compile Freud and philosophy
• philosophical reflections on demise, human aggression, struggle, and peace
• Marcuse’s later serious philosophical views on technology, expertise, society, faith, and ecology.
A complete advent by way of Douglas Kellner, Tyson Lewis and Clayton Pierce locations Marcuse’s paintings within the context of his engagement with the most currents of 20th century politics and philosophy. An Afterword by means of Andrew Feenberg offers a private reminiscence of Marcuse as student, instructor and activist, and summarizes the lasting relevance of his radical idea.
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Introduction 37 Returning to R&R a decade later and remarking on the further decline of negative thought in society, Marcuse noted in his 1954 epilogue that “[t]echnological progress multiplied the needs and satisfactions, while its utilization made the needs as well as their satisfactions repressive: they themselves sustain submission and domination. ”90 Indeed, R&R is a pivotal moment in Marcuse’s thought and signals the beginning of his long-term engagement with research on the role of science and technology in advanced industrial society.
32 Introduction reason, justice, liberation, and so on) to judge its adequacy to develop human and social potential and to provide norms of critique. Marcuse’s philosophical essays of this period therefore should be situated within the larger project of critical theory to define itself against the rising influence of positivistic forms of social theory and cultural thought, as well as new forms of social and political oppression like fascism and other manifestations of totalitarianism. Written around the same time as Horkheimer’s 1930s mission statement of the Frankfurt School, “Traditional and Critical Theory,” Marcuse took aim at the manner in which non-dialectical and empirical theories of society failed to take into account the root values of a commodity-based society, the dehumanizing modes of life in such a society, and how consciousness and instinctual drives of individuals were being molded by new forms of social control and administration.
In this sense, the value framework operating in Marcuse’s epistemological model understands advanced capitalist society as a negative totality, whereas Dewey’s experimental epistemology, which is shaped by positivistic principles according to Marcuse, proceeds from the point of view that society is a positive totality. Existing values for Dewey are 99 For Dewey’s critique of liberalism and his conceptualization of “radical liberalism” see his Liberalism and Social Action (New York: Prometheus Books, 1991).