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It is essential reading for younger scholars and a radical reminder for those steeped in the tradition of a critical theory of society. 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Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377594106079,"sku":"9780415289771","price":50.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VY0sWOEtqL9780415289771.webp?v=1789236144"},{"product_id":"reason-and-revolution-hegel-and-the-rise-of-social-theory-paperback","title":"Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Wonderful, exciting, revolutionary ... The overarching themes of Marcuse's thought are as relevant today as they were when his scholarship and political interventions were most widely celebrated.\" - Angela Y. Davis, \u003cem\u003eMarcuse's Legacies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant and penetrating ... the most important work which has opened up an understanding of Marx's humanism.\" - Erich Fromm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is the philosopher Herbert Marcuse's first major work in English - a masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on European political thought from the French Revolution to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReason \u0026amp; Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, written in 1941, was the first Hegelian Marxist text to appear in English, the first systematic study of Hegel by a Marxist, and the first work in English to discuss the young Marx seriously. It introduced introduced Hegelian and Marxist concepts such as alienation, subjectivity, negativity, and the Frankfurt School's critique of positivism to a wide international audience. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory, the appreciation of \u003cem\u003eReason and Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e has remained high, more relevant now than ever before. There is no better guide than Marcuse to where we have been and to what we might expect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are as relevant to today's society as they were at the time they were written.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We fell in love with Marcuse's mind, his method, his scholarship. We read everything he wrote... His book on Hegel and Marx, \u003cem\u003eReason and Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e, was high on our list because we wanted to understand the intellectual origins of revolutionary Marxism.\" - Dan La Botz, author of \u003cem\u003eA Troublemakers' Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work and Win!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Marxian philosopher who became a hero to the student radicals of the 1960s because of his view that modern society has enslaved mankind\" - \u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A guiding figure to many social activists\" - \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist. He studied at the University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg, and became a crucial figure at the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, and of the Frankfurt School of social theory. He was forced to leave Germany in 1933, eventually settling in the United States, where he would spend much of his life and taught at many of the country's greatest schools and universities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Hegelian-Freudian-Marxist, Marcuse highlighted the cultural forms of repression and the role of technology and the expansion of the production of consumer goods in the maintenance of the stability of capitalism. His classic studies of capitalist society were important influences on the New Left of the 1960s and 1970s and his libertarian socialism remains an important intellectual resource. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophical speculation seldom attracts headlines, let alone threats of death. Yet such was the fate that overtook Herbert Marcuse in the late 1960s, when he was catapulted into international controversy as a prophet of the revolutionary student movement. 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This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Jay Bernstein.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377630740703,"sku":"9781032533919","price":50.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ioTxD-RJq9781032533919.webp?v=1789236237"},{"product_id":"the-essential-marcuse-selected-writings-of-philosopher-and-social-critic-herbert-marcuse-paperback","title":"The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Essential Marcuse\u003c\/i\u003e provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's 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, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's society as they were at the time they were written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377632280799,"sku":"9780807014332","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SZZTEVNAiv9780807014332.webp?v=1789236241"},{"product_id":"counterrevolution-and-revolt-paperback","title":"Counterrevolution and Revolt - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the Western world altogether preventive. Yet capitalism is producing its own grave-diggers, and Marcuse suggests that their faces may be very different from those of the wretched of the earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe future revolution will be characterized by its enlarged scope, for not only the economic and political structure, not only class relatoins, but also humanity's relation to nature (both human and external nature) tend toward radical transformation. For the author, the \"liberation of nature\" is the connecting thread between the economic-political and the cultural revolution, between \"changing the world\" and personal emancipation.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377637687519,"sku":"9780807015339","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/oazvV_LbbZ9780807015339.webp?v=1789236256"},{"product_id":"a-study-on-authority-paperback","title":"A Study on Authority - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first paperback edition of what is now recognized as Marcuse's most important collection of writings on philosophy. He analyzes and attacks some of the main intellectual currents of European thoughts from the Reformation to the Cold War. In a survey that includes Luther, Calvin, Kant, Burke, Hegel and Bergson, he shows how certain concepts of authority and liberty are constant elements in their very different systems. 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