Eros and Revolution : The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse.

Intro -- Eros and Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction: Marcuse, the Utopian -- Idealism, Materialism, Romanticism, and Judaism -- Marcuse's Importance for Radical Politics Today -- Part 1: Marcuse's Life, 1898-1979 -- 2: Early Years: Childhood and Youth, War and Revolution, Romanticism, Utopian Socialism, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger -- Childhood and Youth, War and Revolution -- Post-War Investigations: Aesthetics, German Romanticism, and Hegel -- Friedrich Schiller and Charles Fourier: Utopian Socialism -- Marcuse's Torturous Relationship with Heidegger -- Heideggerian Marxism -- Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity (1932) -- Hitler's Accession and Flight of the Marcuse Family and the Frankfurt School -- 3: Militant Theorizing in Resistance to Fascism, 1933-1945 -- Negations (1934-1938) -- Studies on Authority and Family -- Marcuse's Direct Investigations of Nazism -- Early Theories of Social Change -- The Progression of Marcuse's Thought on the Functions of Art Under Fascism -- Reason and Revolution (1941) -- Reason and Revolution, Part 2: The Rise of Social Theory -- 4: State, Freud, and Orphic Marxism: 1945-1960 -- Post-War Studies: "33 Theses," Francis Bacon, Lukács, Goethe, Friedrich Hölderin, and Erasmus -- Continued Investigations of Historical Progress, Russian Studies, and the Trajectory of Communism and Reason during the Early Cold War -- On Sartre's Existentialism -- Orphic Marxism and the Struggle of Eros against Thanatos -- Lectures on Freedom and Progress in Freud's Theory of the Instincts -- Marcuse's Debate with Fromm on Freud, Therapy, and Adjustment -- Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958) -- The Ideology of Death -- 5: Radical Struggle in the 1960s -- Marcuse on Cuba.

Continued Engagement with Critical Theorists and Lecture on Weber -- Humanism, Feminism, and Revolution -- Critical Reflections on Science and Technology -- One-Dimensional Humanity: Diagnosis, Reflections, and Recommendations -- Part 1: One-Dimensional Society -- Part 2: One-Dimensional Thought -- Part 3: The Chance of the Alternatives -- Marcuse on Marx, Louis Napoleon, and Benjamin -- Justification of Revolutionary Praxis: "Repressive Tolerance," "Ethics and Revolution," Guerrilla Warfare, "The Question of Revolution," and "Thoughts on the Defense of Gracchus Babeuf" -- Psychoanalytical Interventions -- Activism against the Vietnam War -- Summer 1967 Lectures before the German SDS and Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation: On Utopia, Radical Opposition, and Violence -- 1968: A New Dawn for Humanity? -- An Essay on Liberation (1969) -- Other Interventions from 1969: On Student Protest, "The Relevance of Reality," Qualitative Change, and Self-Determination -- Marcuse's 1969 Debate with Adorno on Theory and Praxis -- Revisiting "Repressive Tolerance" and Civil Rights with the ACLU and Fred Schwarz of the Christian Anti-communist Crusade -- "Marxism and the New Humanity: An Unfinished Revolution" -- "Freedom and the Historical Imperative" -- 6: Marcuse's Final Decade: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Intensification (1970-1979) -- Marcuse's Assessment of the State of the Radical Opposition in the Early 1970s: "Cultural Revolution," "The Movement in a New Age of Repression," and "A Revolution in Values" -- Revolution or Reform? Marcuse's Debate with Popper -- Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972) -- Part 1: The Left under the Counterrevolution -- Part 3: Art and Revolution and Conclusion -- Marcuse's Late Championing of Feminism -- International Relations: Vietnam and Israel/Palestine -- Continued Engagement with Aesthetics.

1974 Paris Lectures at Vincennes University -- "It is Right to Revolt" and "Theory and Politics": Late Discussions with Sartre and Habermas -- Marcuse's Final Interventions in Life: On Political Violence, the New Left, the U.S. Bicentennial, "The Reification of the Proletariat," Rudolf Bahro, Technology, and Ecology -- The Aesthetic Dimension (1978) -- Part 2: Reflections on Marcuse -- 7: Nature and Revolution -- Nature, Evolution, and Morality -- "Repressive Tolerance" and Radical Struggle for Animal and Earth Liberation Today -- Conclusion -- 8: Critique of Marcuse -- The Limits to Integration -- The Problem of Sources: Political Philosophy and Empirics -- Marcuse the Edelkommunist -- Marcuse the Zionist? -- Feminism, Gender, Eros -- Conflicts with Poststructuralism and Postmodernism -- Marcuse on Authority and the Transition: Between Jacobinism and Anarchism -- Part 3: Conclusion -- 9: Marcusean Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- Radical Ecological Politics -- Feminist Socialism and Anarcha-Feminism -- The "World Mind" in International Relations: Global Anti-Authoritarianism -- Means and Ends: The Question of Counter-Violence -- Close: Eros and Revolution -- References -- Index.

In Eros and Revolution, Javier Sethness Castro presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), investigating the Hegelian-Marxist, Romantic, existentialist, social-psychological, and anti-authoritarian dimensions of his thought, as well as his contemporary relevance.

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