An Essay on Liberation - Couverture souple

Marcuse, Herbert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807005959 ISBN 13 : 9780807005958

Editeur : Beacon Press, 1971

Synopsis

In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer content itself with repeating the formula, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," but must now investigate the nature of human needs themselves. Marcuse's claim is that even if production were controlled and determined by the workers, society would still be repressive—unless the workers themselves had the needs and aspirations of free men. Ranging from philosophical anthropology to aesthetics An Essay on Liberation attempts to outline—in a highly speculative and tentative fashion—the new possibilities for human liberation. The Essay contains the following chapters: A Biological Foundation for Socialism?, The New Sensibility, Subverting Forces—in Transition, and Solidarity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Beacon Press
• Date d'édition: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807005959
• ISBN 13: 9780807005958
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
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• Personne responsable: non disponible