From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us> Subject: Re: M-I: Herbert Marcuse's "One Dimensional Man" Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 16:33:16 18000 Louis P: > It just goes to show you. You gotta keep an open mind. I approached > Herbert Marcuse's "One Dimensional Man" with the expectation that it would > be even more wide of the mark than Adorno and Horkheimer's "Dialectics of > Enlightenment". > What a surprise to find out how fresh this book appears thirty years after > it first made its big impact on my g-g-g-generation in the 60s. well, it appears that Louis P's post has not initiated a big groundswell of support for "retrieving" Marcuse...interested folks (if there are any on this list) might check out "Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left" edited by John Bokina & Tim Lukes (Kansas University Press: 1994)...while the postmodern/poststructural (post toasties?)/psychoanalytic/aesthetic essays will grate some, the collection includes a critique of analytical marxism by Terrell Carver, an analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union by Peter Marcuse using his father's 1958 "Soviet Marxism" as a lens, a call for connecting feminism to class-based politics by Trudy Steuernagel, an assessment of Marcuse's view of how and why advanced industrial society is anti-ecological by Timothy W. Luke, a reevalation of Marcuse's critique of capitalist technological rationality by Andrew Feenberg, and an overview of still-unpublished writings found in the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt by Dougla Kellner... Michael --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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