Books by Herbert Marcuse

An impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago.

Volume III of Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers focusing on the New Left movement for whom he provided theoretical and political guidance. The new material collected in this and accompanying volumes provides a rich and deep grasp of the era.

Includes unpublished manuscripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a rich collection of letters. Focuses on Marcuse's critical theory of contemporary society. With introduction by Douglas Kellner and afterword by Jürgen Habermas.

Offers a testimony concerning the first attempt to fuse Marxism and existentialism. This work presents an insight concerning Herbert Marcuse's early philosophical evolution.

Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that can take up where religion and philosophy fail and contends that aesthetics offers the last refuge for two-dimensional criticism in a one-dimensional society.

Includes unpublished manuscripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and a rich collection of letters. Focuses on Marcuse's critical theory of contemporary society. With introduction by Douglas Kellner and afterword by Jurgen Habermas.

Penetrating critiques of technology and analyses of the ways that modern technology produces novel forms of society and culture with new modes of social control.

This collection assembles some of Marcuse¿s most important work and presents for the first time his responses to and development of classic Marxist approaches to revolution and utopia. Includes a comprehensive introduction which places Marcuse¿s thought in the context of his engagement with the main currents of twentieth century philosophy.

Volume III of Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers focusing on the New Left movement for whom he provided theoretical and political guidance. The new material collected in this and accompanying volumes provides a rich and deep grasp of the era.

Explores the role of art in Marcuse's work. This work is useful not only for those new to Marcuse, but also for specialists.

A collection that assembles some of Herbert Marcuse's most important work and presents his syntheses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory. It shows Marcuse's attempts to create syntheses of diverse, and often conflicting, philosophical perspectives, ranging from Heidegger and phenomenology to Hegel, Marx, and Freud.

This classic is Marcuse's masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it had on European political thought. Marcuse brilliantly illuminates the implications of Hegel's ideas with the later developments particularly Marxism.

One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radical's way of seeing and experiencing life.

Marcuse's classic study of Freudian thought.