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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450932403321

Autore

Marcuse Herbert <1898-1979., >

Titolo

Technology, war, and fascism / / Herbert Marcuse ; edited by Douglas Kellner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-280-18502-3

1-134-77466-4

0-203-28846-7

9786610185023

0-203-20831-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

KellnerDouglas <1943->

Disciplina

191

303.483

Soggetti

Philosophy

Critical theory

Sociology - Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Preface The Unknown Marcuse: New Archival Discoveries; Acknowledgments; Introduction Technology, War and Fascism: Marcuse in the 1940's; Some Social Implications of Modern Technology; State and Individual Under National Socialism; A History of the Doctrine of Social Change; Theories of Social Change; The New German Mentality; Description of Three Major Projects; Some Remarks on Aragon: Art and Politics in the Totalitarian Era; 33 Theses; Letters to Horkheimer; Heidegger and Marcuse: A Dialogue in Letters; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin.  Marcuse's critical social theory ingeniously fuses phenomenology, Freudian thought and



Marxist theory; and provides a solid ground for his reputation as the most crucial figure inspiring the social activism and New Left politics of the 1960's and 1970's. The largely unpublished work collected in this volume makes clear the continuing relevance of Marcuse's thought to contemporary issues. The texts published here,