Marcuse was not known for his sunny philosophical outlook. A member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, he condemned capitalism and what he saw as the soul-destroying aspects of a ...

Marcuse’s perspective integrates them all: the deepest hopes of humankind form a single civilizational thread. From Plato and Marx to Marcuse: in the classroom he self-consciously saw himself as ...

Marcuse's influence on the New Left was deep and his thought profound, and he deserves revisiting. We try to critically introduce and reflect on One-Dimensional Man in light of some of the challenges ...

In this paper, I maintain that the Marcuse anticipates the poststructuralist critique of the subject, that these critiques suggest that the concept of the subject contains too much philosophical and ...

Marcuse’s case for repression — of thought, conscience, speech, and science — in the name of the “right” ideas has apparently persuaded many powerful American cultural organs today.

Which means that a future Marcuse imagined looks a lot like the present Zuckerberg has helped build. And yet I must admit my Marcuse is a little rusty.

Marcuse’s work lays the groundwork for the 99% to be awakened, politically prepared, and strengthened, calling for a new ecosocialist world system Charles Reitz refers to as “EarthCommonWealth ...