Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 19:04:08 -0500
From: jlnich1-AT-service1.uky.edu (J.L. Nicholas)
Subject: Re: General Question


>> >
>> > > Would any of you consider, or not, Marcuse's _One Dimensional Man_ a
>> > > prophetic discourse?
>

>        Adorno and Horkheimer, begin the arrogant theorists that we all
>know and
>love, in _dialectic of enlightenment_ said that their book was akin to a
>"message in
>a bottle" - since they argued that there is no revolutionary class (vs.
>marx).
>Marcuse, having sold over 300,000 copies of 1-d man was perhaps a bit more
>hopeful.  he even went so far as to claim that the future revolution was
>squarely in
>the hands of socialist feminism (i've got the reference if you want it).


I think one way opf looking at earlier stuff from the Frankfurt members ina
prophetic way is the manner in which they preceded later critiques of
science and social science.  One thing that I always asked is why are
people just now  (this was in the 80's) realizing the oppressive nature of
science and enlightenment reason.

Jeffery