By Douglas Kellner, Herbert Marcuse, Clayton Pierce
Edited by way of Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation is the 5th quantity of Herbert Marcuse's accumulated papers. Containing a few of Marcuse’s most vital paintings, this booklet provides for the 1st time his specific syntheses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and significant social thought, directed towards human emancipation and social transformation.
Within philosophy, Marcuse engaged with disparate and infrequently conflicting philosophical views - starting from Heidegger and phenomenology, to Hegel, Marx, and Freud - to create exact philosophical insights, frequently neglected in desire of his theoretical and political interventions with the hot Left, the topic of past volumes. This assortment assembles major, and often times unknown texts from the Herbert Marcuse documents in Frankfurt, together with:
• critiques of positivism and idealism, Dewey’s pragmatism, and the culture of German philosophy
• philosophical essays from the Thirties and Forties that try to reconstruct philosophy on a materialist base
• Marcuse’s distinct makes an attempt to assemble Freud and philosophy
• philosophical reflections on demise, human aggression, warfare, and peace
• Marcuse’s later serious philosophical views on technology, expertise, society, faith, and ecology.
A complete creation by way of Douglas Kellner, Tyson Lewis and Clayton Pierce areas Marcuse’s paintings within the context of his engagement with the most currents of 20th century politics and philosophy. An Afterword through Andrew Feenberg offers a private reminiscence of Marcuse as student, instructor and activist, and summarizes the lasting relevance of his radical idea.
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Written around the same time as Horkheimer’s 1930s mission statement of the Frankfurt School, “Traditional and Critical Theory,” Marcuse took aim at the manner in which non-dialectical and empirical theories of society failed to take into account the root values of a commodity-based society, the dehumanizing modes of life in such a society, and how consciousness and instinctual drives of individuals were being molded by new forms of social control and administration. Similar to the way Marcuse’s materialist rethinking of phenomenology shaped his philosophical approach early in his career, so too did his critique and assessment of idealism and positivism—projects he would continue his entire life.
134. This essay was originally published in German in Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, Vol. VI, 1937. 84 Marcuse, “Idealism and Positivism,” op. cit. p. 44. 85 Ibid. Also see Marcuse’s essay “The Struggle against Liberalism in the Totalitarian View of the State” in Negations where he charts the development of liberalism as a movement that ultimately finds its end in the legitimation of totalitarian states. 86 Marcuse’s interpretation of Hegel in Reason and Revolution focuses heavily on this 34 Introduction feature of his own assessment of philosophy’s historical role in society: the critical and negative moment within the dialectical structure of idealism continues to be a developmental force in the experience of the living subject so long as reason and reality fail to correspond to each other.
Other contributors included noted positivists of the pre-World War II period such as Rudolph Carnap, Bertrand Russell, Niels Bohr, and Carl Gustav Hempel. The names alone that comprise this group suggest that Dewey was active in contributing to positivist projects within the philosophy of science and thus set him up as a target for the Frankfurt School. , p. 66. 104 Marcuse, “Idealism and Positivism,” op. , p. 92. We should bear in mind that Marcuse’s critique of Dewey in the late 1930s and early 1940s was during the fascist era.
