Search Results for Herbert Marcuse

...Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The aim of this article is to juxtapose the notion of refusal in Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Marcuse, and the Invisible Committee. The article opens by considering Blanchot's 1958 notion of a radical refusal and then turns to Marcuse's idea of a “great refusal” against one...

... with the new worldview sociology, as Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno saw it, was that it diluted the message of Marx's materialist approach and veered heavily back toward traditional idealist philosophy. The significance of the intervention of the Frankfurt School lies in the fact...

..., and self-determination. Gunn and Wilding’s article argues that the movements’ inspiring mix of “refusal” and “alternatives” can be understood within a theoretical framework that foregrounds the concepts of contradiction and recognition. In this context, the article presents Herbert Marcuse and Slavoj Žižek...

... Center. He is author of Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014) and coeditor of Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (2017). Dilruba Çatalbaş is professor of journalism at Galatasaray University. She received her MA in communication studies from...

... of Human Being and Who We Really Are .” Brooklyn Rail . www.brooklynrail.org/2008/11/art/a-new-type-of-human-being-and-who-we-really-are . Kellner Douglas . 1984 . Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism . Berkeley : University of California Press . Lacan Jacques . 2002...

... at Rutgers University. An anthropologist by training, his research focuses on the intersection of new media and con- temporary social movements. Wolfson is author of Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (2014) and co-editor of The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements...

...- tuals? Maybe it was women, third-world people, and radical intellectuals resisting at the margins of Herbert Marcuse’s one-dimensional society? 262 The South Atlantic Quarterly • Against the Day • Winter 2011 Perhaps it was black women occupying a “position at the bottom” of society...

.... The antithesis was Herbert Marcuse, who had discerned in Freud s work (and in Western affluence) the prospect of an end to repression, of the satisfaction of the instincts, of genuine liberation. Abramson builds upon RiefFs more scrupulous exegesis, carefully indicating how cautious and fragile Freud s own faith...

...), but I want to consider this from a contemporary perspective, enlisting some insights from the social sciences coupled with the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse and the neo-Marxism of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. What we will find is a certain confluence between “Marx and the Holy Ghost...

... . 1950 . “ Religion and the Intellectuals: A Symposium .” 17 , nos. 2-5 . Paz Octavio . 1991 . Alternating Current . New York : Arcade . Reitz Charles . 2000 . Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse . Albany : State University of New...

... of the school reached the same conclusions. Horkheimer and Adorno became prophets of gloom. Herbert Marcuse, however, having digested Freud s psy­ choanalysis in the thirties and Jean-Paul Sartre s existentialism in the forties, turned in the fifties to a tentative revolutionary optimism. But in both tendencies...

... .” In The Ideologies of Theory , 483 – 515 . New York : Verso . Linebaugh Peter . 2008 . The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All . Berkeley : University of California Press . Marcuse Herbert . (1937) 1968 . “ The Affirmative Character of Culture .” In Negations , 88 – 133...

... and buried manifestations of utopian social relationships. Such a response meets the challenge Herbert Marcuse set forth in his One-Dimensional Man,3 yet it takes his critique of capitalist culture one step further into daily life, one step deeper into the commodity form, one step closer to a truly...

... Subject and Its Fate after the Cold War . New York : Bloomsbury Academic . Marcus Greil . 1989 . Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Marcuse Herbert . 1966 . Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry...

... practices, it should be noted) to the rigid authority of such an unchangeable external nature. Herbert Marcuse once put the point more broadly: with an eye less on religion than technology, he observed that modern science “came to provide the pure concepts as well...

... power and human annihila­ tion. This compulsive modern thrust toward dehumanization prompted Mumford to diagnose American culture as tacitly totalitarian. Like Herbert Marcuse s, Mumford s movement from aesthetics to politics inspired radi­ cal remedies for this totalitarian condition. The scientific...

... help here to recall Herbert Marcuse's ( 2012 : 67) insistence on the need to understand art as “a medium which presents the absent” and poetic language as “a language of cognition—but a cognition which subverts the positive.” Poetic language, according to Marcuse, “performs the great task of thought...

... Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950 . Berkeley : University of California Press . Marcuse Herbert . 1964 . One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society . Boston : Beacon Press . Marcuse Herbert...

.... An exception was Paul Good­ man, the anarchist destined to become the most important intellectual of the 1960 s; but in the 1950 s he kept packing his trunk with un­ published manuscripts. Herbert Marcuse managed to combine uto­ pianism with despair. Assuming the permanence of Western prosperity as freely...

... kept packing his trunk with un­ published manuscripts. Herbert Marcuse managed to combine uto­ pianism with despair. Assuming the permanence of Western prosperity as freely as any corporation executive, Marcuse could not suggest how to accelerate the locomotive history, which would no longer require...