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Introduction
The Frankfurt
School (actually the Institut f&r Sozialforschung&in
Frankfurt) influenced numerous scholars who consider themselves practitioners
of Critical Theory.
See the , and its
The &first
generation& of scholars includes founding members:
Horkheimer (); see
Adorno (), see
on this site
Marcuse (), and
Benjamin (); see .
The &second
generation&'s most influential scholar is:
generation& Frankfurt School scholars with entries
below include:
See && (2000), by
Joel Anderson
We can even speak
of a &fourth generation,& such as
Habermas's students
Some of Herbert's
students in the United States are included on this page,
, who became Herbert's third wife in 1976.
Additionally,
a few of Herbert's former students have contacted me via this website,
for example: ,
The list below is
ordered alphabetically.
See also the authors
of secondary works listed on this site's .
The && of the 2004 Marcuse reader also contains information
about additional names
Abromeit, John D.
1970), Professor of History and Social Studies Education,
SUNY/Buffalo State College
2004: Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader, co-edited with W. Mark Cobb (New York: Routledge, 2004). ()
John co-wrote the introduction and wrote the essay (pp. 131-151): &Herbert Marcuse's Critical Enounter with Martin Heidegger, .&
2005: Herbert Marcuse: Heideggerian Marxism, co-edited with Richard Wolin. (University of Nebraska, 2005).
2006: &The Vicissitudes of the Politics of 'Life:'.& Paper presented at the conference, &Living Weimar Between System and Self,& University of Indiana, September 2006.
2010: &The Limits of Praxis: The Social Psychological Foundations of Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno&s Interpretations of the 1960s Protest Movements,& in: B. Davis, W. Mausbach, M. Klimke and C. MacDougall (eds.),
Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in the 1960s/70s West Germany and U.S. (Berghahn Books, 2010).
2010: &The Origins and Development of the Model of Early Critical Theory in the Work of Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse,& in: David Ingram (ed.), Politics and the Human Sciences, vol. 5 of the History of Continental Philosophy, ed. Alan Schrift (London: Acumen Publishing, 2010).
2011: &Left Heideggerianism or Phenomenological Marxism? Revisiting Herbert Marcuse&s Critical Theory of Technology.& in: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 17:1 (March, 2010).
2013: &Whiteness as a Form of Bourgeois Anthropology?
Historical Materialism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of David Roediger, Max Horkheimer, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse.& in: Radical Philosophy Review 16:1(2013), pp. 325&343.
Agger, Ben
ca. 1953), Professor of Sociology and Humanities, Director of Center for Theory, Department of Sociology,
University of Texas at Arlington.
; relevant publications:
1973 &The Aesthetic Politics of Herbert Marcuse,& The Canadian Forum(October 1973).
1976 &Marcuse and Habermas on New Science,& Polity 9:2(1976), 151-181.
1979 &The Growing Relevance of Marcuse's Dialectic of Individual and Class,& in: Dialectical Anthropology 4:2(July 1979), pp. 135-145. ()
&Work and Authority in Marcuse and Habermas,& in: Human Studies 2:3 (July 1979), pp. 191-208. ()
1979 &Mortal Marxism: The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse, & The Canadian Forum (November 1979).
&Marcuse's Freudian Marxism,& in: Dialectical Anthropology 6:4(June 1982), pp. 319-336. ()
1987. &Marcuse's Aesthetic Politics: Ideology-Critique and Socialist Ontology,& Dialectical Anthropology 12:3(1988), 329-341.()
1988 &Marcuse's One-Dimensionality: Ideological and Socio-Historical Context,& in: Dialectical Anthropology 13:4(1988), 315-329. ()
The Discourse of Domination:
From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern
University Press, 1992), 347 p.
1994. &Marcuse and Postmodernity,& in Marcuse Revisited, ed. by Timothy Lukes and Steven Bokina (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1994), 27-40.
Anderson, Kevin B.
1948), Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.
His extensive personal website:
Some publications about Herbert Marcuse:
&A Preliminary Exploration of the Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Dialogue, 1954 to 79 (with excerpts from their correspondence and comments by Douglas Kellner),& in:
Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Vol. 13:4 (1989),
&On Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory: A Critical Appreciation of Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution, Fifty Years Later,& in: Sociological Theory 11:3 (Nov. 1993), pp. 243-267 []
The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, : Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory (Lexington Books, 2012), 330 pages. ()
&Marcuse&s and Fromm&s Correspondence with the Socialist Feminist Raya Dunayevskaya: A New Window on Critical Theory,& in: Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 11:1 (Winter 2012) ()
&Resistance versus Emancipation: ,& in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 12:1 (Winter 20113).
Ronald (b.
1938), Professor of Humanities, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
distinguished Sartre scholar
graduate student at Brandeis 1962-68: MA 1965, Ph.D. 1968: &Art
and Freedom in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre,& advised by Henry
David Aiken and Herbert Marcuse.
Reader for Herbert in the Brandeis History of Ideas Program 1963-64.
Publication: &Dear Herbert& (A critique of Herbert Marcuse),
in: George Fisher, ed., The Revival of American Socialism (Oxford
University Press, 1971).
July 2005 reminiscence posted on :
&Today the most
important effect of studying with [Herbert] and being influenced by him
seems to be the intellectual and political resiliancy I developed. From
Althusser to postmodernism I remained unphased by the various fads and
was able to hold on to a radical, indeed strongly Marxist perspective,
and at the same time not forget that the ultimate political goal was to
join theory and practice. His teaching was so clear, so simple, so powerful.
Like Sartre, he produced few acolytes, many independent thinkers and actors.
My After Marxism [1995] has an extended discussion of my encounter
with him (the &Marxist Itinerary& chapter) as well as a coming
to grips with his heritage in the final chapter.&
Baran, Paul A.
(), Marxist Economist, professor at Stanford, .
Author of The Political Economy of Growth (1957)
Co-author of Monopoly Capital (with Paul Sweezy, 1966)
Marcuse and Baran knew each other since the early 1930s and corresponded from 1948 until Baran's death in 1964.
were republished in 2014 in the Monthly Review.
Herbert's son Peter commented on this correspondence in June 2014 on his blog, &,& which was republished on the MR website as: &.&
Herbert gave a talk in 1966 at a Stanford conference in honor of Baran: &,& (republished by the Monthly Review in 2014).
Barbeitos, Arlindo
(b. 1940), Angolan poet ,
(Arlindo do Carmo Pires Barbeitos),.
many of his works (in Portuguese), subtly portray Angola's struggle of his
for independence as well as the
harmony between humanity and nature.
studies in West Germany
then taught at several bases of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola during Angola&s struggle for independence.
Herbert named as mentor in this .
Roger (b. 1967), philosopher,
sociologist und theoretician of art, author, freelance cultural journalist
und musician. 2005: academic assistant at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
studied philosophy and social sciences in Hamburg, Berkeley and at
the Jan van Eyck-Akademie in M Ph.D. from Kassel University.
2000 Buch &Ubersetzungen: Studien zu Herbert M konkrete
Philosophie, Praxis und kritische Theorie (Mainz: Ventil, 2000), 251
2002 book Kritische Theorie (EVA, 2002)
2003 Buch &Adorno-ABC&
2003 Buch &Die Diktatur der Angepassten&
2005 article &Schillers Sch&nheit& ()
(b. 1950), Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale
received her first BA in Istanbul, then a BA in philosophy from Brandeis
in the 1970s, and her Ph.D. from Yale in 1977. She taught the New School
for Social Research 1991-93, Harvard , and since 2000 at Yale.
Current research on multiculturalism in liberal democracies and transformations
of citizenship
Selected publications ():
Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations
of Critical Theory (Columbia Univ. Press, 1986), 455 pages, UCSB:
B809.3 .B46 1986.
translator: Herbert Marcuse, Hegel's Ontology and
the Theory of Historicity. Trans. Seyla Benhabib (MIT Press, 1987)
co-editor: On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives.
(co-edited with Wolfgang Bonss and John McCole) (MIT Press, 1993).
co-editor: Habermas and the Unfinished Project
of Modernity: Critical Essays on the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity,
edited by Maurizio P. D'Entreves and Seyla Benhabib (MIT, 1996)
The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (Sage
Pub., 1996)
Transformation of Citizenship: Dilemmas of the
Nation-State in the Era of Globalization (Van Gorcum: Amsterdam, 2000)
The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in
the Global Era (Princeton , 2002)
In an April 2013 panel discussion at Clark University, Benhabib spoke of her heritage (from the 2012-13 Annual Report of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, p. 14):
&A Sephardi Jew from &multicultural& Istanbul, whose family history in Ottoman lands goes back to 1492, she had been unfamiliar with the facts concerning Turkey&s anti-Jewish war-time policies. Growing up amid the secular ideals of Kemalism in the late 1950s and 1960s, she embraced her dual Turkish-Jewish identity. Yet, in retrospect, she expressed sadness over the opportunism behind the once strong Turkish-Israeli alliance which sacrificed recognition of the Armenian Genocide for geo-political and economic benefits.&
Lowell (b.
late 1940s), professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism,
former investigative journalist and producer of CBS's 60 Minutes
and PBS's Frontline.
&I studied with
him [Herbert] as a graduate fellow in philosophy at the University of California
at San Diego (UCSD) from 1966 to 1969. It was a Ph.D. program in the history
of philosophy. I completed the written exams but never finished, although
I did stay in touch with him until his death a decade later. Marcuse conducted
a lecture for upper division and graduate students in German philosophy
and a regular seminar on Kant and Hegel. I participated in the seminar
and audited the lecture.& (for much more, see the
[9/2012: web archive version])
Bergman talks more
in-depth about his theoretical influences and differences by Marcuse.
(2001-06, now web archive) by Russell Crowe:
&After getting deeply involved academically in the quest for a &new revolutionary theory& [e.g. Marcuse], I also began to try and figure out what I should do to change things. Then in 1968, students in Rome, Frankfurt, Paris and Berlin demonstrated, struck and shouted the names 'Mao, Marx & Marcuse!& Now the old professor was 70 years old and living in La Jolla, Calif., where he walked to UC-San Diego every morning. Local right-wing vigilantes cut his phone lines, shot at his house while the daily paper editorialized that he should be fired.
Yours truly was one of his graduate fellows in the ph.d. program getting a migraine reading Hegel in the original. One hundred pages an academic year in the seminar. After doing some bodyguard duty and general scheming with my colleagues we joined with some locals in San Diego and started a weekly newspaper.
Our first thought was to use our academic skills and dig into who ran San Diego. The rest is history. . . . &
Norman (b. 1926), Emeritus Professor
of Sociology at Georgetown University Law Center, member of the editorial board of The
Contribution to :
&Here are some
brief recollections of Herbert. There is little new to say about his intellectual
and political influence. I have always thought of Eros And Civilization
as a major work, combining historical insight and human imagination. Compared
with the others of the Frankfurt School of his generation, Herbert was
far more cosmopolitan, more committed, more courageous (I think of the
disgraceful episode in which Horkheimer attempted to have the young Juergen
Habermas dismissed from the Institut fuer Sozialforschung because
of his political views.) What I now think of, however, are Herbert's great
human qualities: forthrightness, an enormous capacity for enjoyment, and
a splendid sense of humor.
&I recollect his marvelous talk on Max Weber at the 1964 German Sociological
Association Weber centenary meeting. [published in
New Left Review, March/April 1965, pp. 3-17] Raymond
Aron, Pietro Rossi, Talcott Parsons had given reasonable academic evaluations
of Weber (Parsons, to be sure, had somehow situated him 'beyond ideology,'
a location which would have rendered Weber himself uncomfortable.) Herbert
(seconded by Habermas) delivered a large critique of Weber's Dec[is]ionism,
connecting him to Carl Schmitt, and raised the question of how value-free
the advocate of a value-free social science actually was. He invited the
public to ask if Weber did not bear some responsibility for the intellectual
onslaught on the Weimar Republic which prepared the way for Nazism---which
was, in 1964, a breach of German academic decorum.
&I also remember the way he began the talk, by citing the inscription
over the doorway of the university building, in Heidelberg, in which the
meeting was held: &Dem Lebendigen Geist& (roughly, 'To
The Living Spirit') 'Es gibt Dinge, die man nicht uebersetzten kann.'
'There are phrases which are untranslatable.' I believe that the visit
occasioned some melancholic self-reflection on whether he should have taken
a full-time academic post in post-war Germany. In the end, of course, Herbert
could hardly complain of a lack of influence in Germany and there is hardly
a member of the present government who will not have read his writings.
That he would greet with all of his irony---and so prepare the way for
the next try.
&We were having a drink in the Heidelberger Hof and the singular
conventionality of some of the other guests caught his attention. 'Norman,
reality is its own caricature.'
I also recall a visit to Herbert and Inge, winter of 1969. ... It was snowing
in New England, and I had to cope with ice and fog on Highway 91 as I drove
from Amherst to Hartford airport. The next morning, Herbert and I walked
to the La Jolla campus, with its palm trees, attractive women in Californian
splendor, and tie-less nearness to sensuality. 'Herbert, what a contrast
with New England!' 'Norman, I have always told you, winter is a bourgeois
ideology' ... May his memory be blessed.&
Blanco-Aguinaga, Carlos
(b. 1926). Prof. of Literature emeritus, colleague of Herbert's at UCSD
lots interview footage in film Herbert's Hippopotamus ()
first book: Unamuno, te&rico del lenguaje. (El Colegio
de M&xico, 1954)
his wife Iris was a graduate student at UCSD from 1970 to 1972.
see: Encuentros en la di&spora: homenaje
a Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, published in October 2003 by Associaci&
d’Idees – GEXEL. Edited by Mari Paz Balibrea (University of London) in
collaboration with Rosaura S&nchez, Beatrice Pita, and Jaime Concha.
This book is a collection of essays by noted writers who have been inspired
by Carlos Blanco-Aguinaga. It opens with Mari Paz Balibrea’s biographical
essay on Carlos Blanco-Aguinaga and a bibliography of his work, is available
in the department library, courtesy of Rosaura S&nchez. (2002),
256 p&ginas, ISBN: 84-, 17,50 Euros
&La trayectoria
vital e intelectual de Blanco Aguinaga desborda los l&mites de la
academia o, quiz& mejor, ampl&a &stos hasta conseguir
una unidad de trabajo y vida en la que influyen y se retroalimentan vocaci&n
literaria y cr&tica, convicciones pol&ticas y extraordinarias
circunstancias hist&ricas.
Encuentros en la di&spora se compone de art&culos
de muy diferente &ndole, y que pretenden funcionar como representativos
de la amplitud de di&logos y disciplinas que el trabajo y la trayectoria
de este autor ha conseguido abarcar. Quienes colaboran en este volumen
son reconocidas personalidades en sus propias disciplinas, pa&ses
y campos de especializaci&n. Amigos y colegas de tres continentes
unidos en este inusitado libro que s&lo el hilo conductor de la
amistad y el intercambio intelectual con Carlos Blanco Aguinaga pod&a
hacer posible.&
(b. 1948), studied philosophy, sociology, literature and political science
in Frankfurt (Adorno was one of his teachers). He teaches Social Theory
and Sociology of Culture at the University of Hannover.
editor of Spuren der Befreiung - Herbert Marcuse: Ein Materialienbuch
zur Einf&hrung in sein politisches Denken (Luchterhand,
1981), 175 pages. ()
Detailed information on this site at booksabout/claussen.htm.
author of Theodor W. Adorno: Ein letztes Genie (S. Fischer,
2003), 479 pages, 26.90 EUR ()
1998 remembrance of Herbert, published on July 18, 1998 in the Zurich
Tagesanzeiger, &.&
Cobb, W. Mark.
1962), Professor of Philosophy and Humanities,
Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA
: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
Author: &Diatribes and Distortions: Marcuse's Academic Reception,&
pp. 163-185, and co-author (with John Abromeit): &Introduction,& pp. 1-39; both in: John Abromeit & W. Mark Cobb (eds.), Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004).
with viewable table of contents.
in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 5(2004).
earned his Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he
studied with Angela Davis, who advised his 2007 dissertation, Marcuse's Ghost.
(b. 1944), activist philosopher and professor in the History of Consciousness
program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has published
on race, class, gender and the prison-industrial complex.
for photos see:
(2 pix near bottom) on this site, also
. Sept. 11, 1970 Life magazine cover story (pp. 20-27) with lots of pictures ().
1969, Oct: Herbert Marcuse speech in Sproul Plaza
[sound recording]: University of California, Berkeley, 1969 Oct. 24. 1
sound tape reel [UCB]
Speech relates to Angela Davis, University of California and students'
roles in society.
Transcript also available.
Herbert was interviewed about Angela, in the March 25, 1971 Jet magazine (full text at ): &Says Angela 'One of Most Nonviolent Persons'&
at UC Santa Cruz ().
On Davis, see also:
(this site);
(1988), or this
for Black History Month.
< has an .
You can listen to her read from her book &&
or peruse a .
Mike (b. 1946),
writer, historian, activist, resides in Los Angeles
detailed biography: Adam Schatz, &The American
Earthquake: Mike Davis and the politics of disaster,&
in: Lingua Franca, Sept. 1997, :
In 1969, after being fired by Dorothy Healey, the regional
party leader, for hounding the Russian cultural attach& out of the
store--Davis despised the Soviets and didn't like them snooping around--he
enrolled in a teamsters' opportunity program. For the next four years,
he hauled 240-foot trailers filled with Barbie dolls out of L.A., acquiring
an encyclopedic knowledge of the city as well as of Western geography.
In his spare time, he tried to master Marx's Capital and Sartre's Search
for a Method and paid visits to Herbert Marcuse. Fellow
left-wing truckers were rather hard to come by. &At night we'd go
out to topless bars, and I'd blurt out, 'I'm a communist,' and they'd say,
'Dick's a Jehovah's Witness. Let's have another drink.'&
In a 1990s interview with Mark Dery, &Downsizing the Future: Beyond
Blade Runner with Mike Davis,& probably published in Dery's Escape
Velocity (Grove 1997) [], and
(alternate link):
&You know, I don't
really know w I do know that we live in a post-liberal,
post-reformist period where substantive urban reform has been abandoned
and where the liberal positions of the '60s now stand in almost revolutionary
relationship to political discourse in this country. What's being recycled
as postmodernism is Frankfurt School Marxism in its most pessimistic mode,
although admittedly jazzed up with some very interesting thoughts about
new technologies and media. But Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man
still squats on the horizon,
the 'postmodern' disappearance
of the critical subjectivity is pure Marcuse.
Davis: Of course, although I should point out that the malling of public
space doesn't have this kind of Marcuse-ian determinacy,
where the critical consciousness or the rebellious subject is extinguished
in the sweet plunder of intoxicated consumption. Rather, what actually
happens is the definition of new forms of criminality, to the extent that
the social spaces that people--- particularly kids---use are now these
pseudo-public spaces, malls and their equivalents. Increasingly, the only
legal youthful activities involve consumption, which just forces whole
areas of normal teenage behavior off into the margins.&
author of& (additional texts available on ):
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and
economy in the history of the US working class
(London: Verso, 1986)
ed: The Year Left 2: An American Socialist Yearbook
(London: Verso, 1987)
and Michael Sprinker (eds.), Reshaping the US left
: popular struggles in the 1980s (London: Verso, 1988)
et al, ed: Fire in the hearth: the radical politics
of place in America (London: Verso, 1990)
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
(Verso, Vintage, 1990)
LA was just the beginning: Urban revolt in the
United States: a thousand points of light (Open magazine pamphlet
series, no. 20); (PO Box 2726, Westfield NJ 07091), 20 pages
Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, The Ecology
of Fear ()
(Open magazine pamphlet series, no. 23); (PO Box 2726, Westfield NJ
07091), 20 pages
Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination
of disaster (New York : Metropolitan Books, 1998)
Prisoners of the American dream: politics and economy
in the history of the US working class (Verso, 1999)
video, in America behind Bars series: Beyond the
prison industrial complex [videorecording]: critical resistance /
[presented by] Deep Dish T.V.
Publisher San Francisco, Calif. : Critical Resistance Video : Public Media
Network [distributor], [1999?] Description 1 videocassette (56 min.)[highlights
from 1998 Berkeley conf.]
Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the US city
(New York : Verso, 2000)
Late Victorian holocausts : El Nin~o famines and
the making of the third world (New York: Verso, 2001)
Dead cities, and other tales (New York: New
P Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2002)
Land of the lost mammoths: a science adventure
(Santa Monica, CA: Perceval Press, 2003)
Under the perfect sun : the San Diego tourists
never see (New York: New P distributed by W.W. Norton, 2003)
&,& in New Left Review (March-April 2004): &Future
history of the Third World’s post-industrial megacities. A billion-strong
global proletariat ejected from the formal economy, with Islam and Pentecostalism
as songs of the dispossessed.&
The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian
Flu (New Press, 2005)
&Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal
Proletariat&
Readings from Marcuse and Davis are included in the
&Explorations in Critical Theory and Cultural
Studies,& 2005-06.
Margit Mayer used texts by Davis and Peter Marcuse in a 2002 Berlin
course: &.&
Ditfurth, Jutta.
(b. 1951), sociologist and German Green party co-founder
influenced by Herbert, although by no means his student.
on this site
Entspannt in die Barbarei: (&Oko-)Faschismus und Biozentrismus
(Hamburg: Konkret, , 2002) ().
Das waren die Gr&nen (Econ, 2001)()
Ulrike Meinhof (Econ, Oct. 2005)()
Dobson, Alan J.,
England (b. 1950s?) (not Alan P. of Dundee, Scotland).
On July 5, 2005 Dobson wrote the following in :
&I wrote my Ph.D
on Herbert's work at the University of Sheffield UK. I still regulary reread
his work and derive considerable intellectual excitement therefrom. It
is a paradox Herbert would appreciate that the continued relevence of his
work is both a matter for the celebration of his understanding of capitalism
and a source of depression that capitalism has increased its capacity to
secure itself against opposition.&
The British library
catalog copac.ac.uk lists:
The Concepts of Reason and Essence in the Writings of Herbert Marcuse: With Special Emphasis on the Period , Thesis (Ph.D.) -
University of Sheffield, Dept. of Politics, 1989. ()
In September 2008 he submitted this manuscript to the Guardian newspaper, which did not publish it--although it offers a nice summary of Herbert's analysis of consumer society and the potential for a utopian revolution: ' Alan Dobson examines the ideas of a thinker whose ideas were a major influence upon the student radicals of 1968.' (7 page pdf)
1942), Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American professor of Literature and Latin
American Studies at Duke University since 1985; playwright, political essayist,
poet, novelist.
He wrote the following :
&I owe so much
to Marcuse - he was the first one, as I can recall, who made me understand
why we had to oppose both the Soviet system and its capitalist twisted
mirror. But I simply have not a moment to spare - and if I were to write
something it should be a real reckoning trying to figure out what was so
deeply right, but also what went wrong. Or maybe simply how we misapplied
Marcuse. I have not given it much thought and should but at the moment
simply can't.
&The only reference in my work which others may find interesting in
this regard is the chapter of Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual
Journey, where I tell the story of our trip to Berkeley from pre-revolutionary
Chile in 1968-69, and then our return to Santiago to join the Allende revolution
which was about to burst onto world history. I deal in that chapter with
how deeply influenced I was by what I lived in the States (which is to
say, by those who were reading and following Marcuse), and at the same
time about how lacking I found those movements in maturity, relationship
with real workers, capacity to comprehend that radical change means engaging
vast sectors of society whose members do not seem to be immediate or obvious
allies. Part of that chapter is a way in which I hint at how sexuality
and revolution tend to have been at odds and should not be, a questioning
of the limits between personal and collective liberation.&
Publications:
Play Death and the Maiden later made into a film directed by Roman
Book Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations,
(Seven Stories Press) is an excellent introduction to his work, exploring
the ways Americans apply amnesia to their yesterdays and innocence to their
tomorrows.
Book Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Gen. Augusto
Pinochet, Desert Memories (National Geographic)
Coauthor with his son Joaquin of the novel The Burning City.
(b. 1946), since 1992 professor of Sociology at the University of Giessen (emiritus since 20xx)
with vita, etc. (click on navbar at left)
1968-73 studied sociology in Bielefeld and Bochum
member of the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt
Director of the Institute of Social Research, Frankfurt
Selected publications:
Wissenschaftsorganisation und politische Erfahrung
(Frankfurt 1978), translated as Theory and Politics (MIT 1986)
Die Demokratische Frage (with G&nther
Frankenberg und Ulrich Roedel), 1990
Demokratie und Schuld, M&nchen 1999
Ralph (b. ), &Librarian-Archivist-Information Specialist-Researcher-Scholar.& ()
Dumain's extensive website
includes his own and other texts about Herbert's work, including:
&Reactionary Philosophy and Ambiguous Aesthetics
in the Revolutionary Politics of Herbert Marcuse? A Review Essay&
by Ralph Dumain, in: Nature, Society & Thought, 2003, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p361. [PDF file]
&Notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution&
&From Hegel to Marcuse& by Lucio Colletti
Theodor W. Adorno Study Guide (includes Marcuse &
critical theory links)
Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation (Herbert Marcuse
& Karl Popper)
(Links to selected chapters including statements by Marcuse)
And quotations from two key essays by Marcuse (1936
& 1937 in G 1968 in English):
Philosophy and Critical Theory (Excerpt: Philosophy
and Class Society)
The Concept of Essence (Excerpt: Phenomenology)
(), German student activist, was a friend who shared many
elements of Herbert's vision of society, if not how to change it.
See this article Dutschke wrote in
Rudi's widow Gretchen published his diary in 2003: Die Tagebücher
[], which contains many references to Herbert.
I've begun a separate page for discussions of their relationship: .
196x?), Associate Professor of P Director, Africana Studies Program
Ph.D. University of Kentucky
first taught at
St. Joseph's University Dept. of Philosophy, Philadelphia
founder/president of the International Herbert Marcuse Association
since 2008
at Univeristy of Kentucky Dept. of Philosophy ()
Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies (Lexington Books, Lanham MD, pp
Andrew (b. 1943), formerly at San Diego State University,
since 2003 Professor of the Philosophy of Technology at Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada
new book Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption
of History (Routledge, 2004), 158 pages. ,
text of his paper at the Nov. 1998 conference in Berkeley: &&
59:37 minute lecture on YouTube:&,& presented at the D.G. Willis Bookstore, broadcast
in Oct. 2007 on UCSD-TV, about a collection of Herbert's essays that Feenberg
co-edited. Starts with a biographical narrative.
Christian (b. ca. 1974), stud since
ca. 2002 lecturer and research associate at the Institute of Design and
Technology Assessment at the Vienna University of Technology
in Feb. 2002 created an internet && with an excellent set of links, and
versions of his many publications about Herbert. (functional but not updated
after August 2003)
Krise und Kritik in der Informationsgesellschaft: Arbeiten &ber
Herbert Marcuse, kapitalistische Entwicklung und Selbstorganisation,
408 Seiten. 27 EUR
The first part of the book is Fuchs' 2002 essay:
&Zur Aktualit&t ausgew&hlter Aspekte des Werks Herbert Marcuses&
Gamsby, Patrick
(b. ca. 197x), Lecturer in the History of Ideas, Brandeis University.
2013: &: Draft of the former politics professor's 'One-Dimensional Man' at Brandeis archives&
Oct. 2014 conference presentation: &One-Dimensional Manuscript&
Norman (b. 1943), Professor Emeritus of Government at the
University of Manchester, former editor of New Left Review.
in July 2005; and mentions
Publications:
The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend (1983)
Literature of Revolution: Essays on Marxism (1986)
The Contract of mutual indifference: Political philosophy after the
Holocaust (1998)
Solidarity in the conversation of humankind: The ungroundable liberalism
of Richard Rorty (1995)
Golan, Galia.
Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem
Prof. Jerry Z. Muller, a Marcuse-scholar at the Catholic
University of America in Washington, DC, wrote in this site's guestbook:
&Another distinguished
student of Herbert's (rather more solid than either Hoffman or Davis) is
Prof. Galia Golan, professor of Russian studies
at Hebrew University, and long a stalwart of Peace Now.& (Guestbook,
Oct. 15, 2002)
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, B.A. Brandeis University, diplome from the
Sorbonne, Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She emigrated
to Israel in 1966 and has been on the faculty of the Hebrew University
since 1967. Active in Peace Now since 1978.
Gonsalves, Brian (b. ca. 1979). Avid reader with interest in philosophy. Works
as a security guard in Orange county.
Registered the domain name <, which
was basically a page of links. The .
in which Brian writes the following:
&The last time that literature induced a major shift in my world view
was 1999; during a brief respite from my depression I first tackled the
philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Associated with the neo-Marxist Frankfurt
School, Marcuse was extremely influential upon the radical Left in the
1960’s. His philosophy is a highly original synthesis of Hegel, Marx, and
Freud. A materialist aestheticism permeates his thought (perhaps this is
what attracted me to it) and yet in his analysis of both society and the
individual there is much depth. Though he is primarily concerned with the
beautiful, the true and the good are not neglected to the extent that they
are in Nietzsche. Marcuse changed my way of thinking by directing my attention
toward the social organism. After years of blind individualism I had forgotten
that I too was part of society and that many of my own problems were of
a universal nature. In Eros and Civilization Marcuse draws attention to
the fact that society demands of its members a level of repression over
and above what is needed to defeat scarcity and provide for the commonweal.
Technology has made feasible a drastic reduction of the amount of overall
labor engaged in by man, opening up the utopian possibility of a society
based around leisure and play. Nevertheless, the culture of toil is perpetuated
by an obsolete work ethic and by the manufacture of false needs through
advertising. People must continue to work full-time in order to buy mass-advertised
gadgets and luxury items. This over-consumption is fostered so as to support
the over-production which keeps everyone working. The absurdities of advanced
capitalism are further explored in Marcuse’s second great work, One-Dimensional
Man. The book’s central point is that modern society’s totalitarian nature
almost excludes the possibility of there arising any genuine opposition
to it. The proletariat, stupefied by mass media, has itself become a counter-revolutionary
force. High art, once a gateway to an alternative dimension, has lost its
transcendental quality through being commercialized. Philosophy also has
lost its ability to oppose society as critical thought forms (as in Hegel
and Marx) have given way to a shallow positivism. Writing in the late sixties,
Marcuse did see a viable oppositional force in the student radicals. He
quickly became their guru.
As I recognized that Eros and Civilization and One-Dimensional Man were
thoroughly applicable to the 1990’s I became angry. Less and less did I
feel guilty about not fitting into this society. More did my alienation
make me determined to fight the establishment. My chance came in December
1999 with the convention of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. I
caught a bus to the city and joined thousands of people protesting the
order of global corporate capitalism. In all honesty it was exhilarating
to take part in that small piece of history. When I got home, however,
my enthusiasm waned. Neither Herbert Marcuse nor memories of Seattle could
keep me from slipping back into my usual depression.&
J&rgen&(b.
1929) is by far the best known member of this &second generation&
of critical sociologists. On Habermas see the
, a postgraduate student of philosophy at the University
of Helsinki (site begun Sept. 1997, last updated Aug. 2002); or this
, a Dec. 1998 research presentation by Steve Robinson,
a student at Michigan State University.
(created 2003)
Abbie (), after graduating from Brandeis University
(where he studied with Herbert) in 1959, Hoffman
received an MA from Berkeley. In 1966 he was a member of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee, in 1967 a co-founder of the Youth
International Party (Yippie), and was one of the &Chicago Seven&
arrested at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He is best known for
his creative protests, for example in 1967 at the New York Stock and the
Pentagon. In 1987 he was arrested for the 42nd time while protesting CIA
recruitment at UMass.
with list of his books
1968 book Revolution for the Hell of It, 1971 Steal this
abbiehoffmann.org has
(pdf), and a
Jonah Raskin's , and 1997 biography
2000 film biography &Steal This Movie!&
Axel (b. 1949), professor of philosophy, since 2001 director
of the Frankfurt Institut f&r Sozialforschung
Ingram, David
(b. 19xx), Professor of
Philosophy,
Loyola University Chicago since 1987, previously at University of Northern I &political activist, and close acquaintance
of Herbert Marcuse during the last seven years of his tenure at UCSD ().&
: The Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse: Volume Two, ed. Douglas Kellner, Routledge, 2001, in: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Jan. 4, 2002.
Doug (b.1946), radical political journalist and media critic.
Writer and columnist for
the pre-Murdoch New York Post, Village Voice (serving
for seven years as its chief media critic), the New York Observer,
and the Parisian daily Liberation, The Nation, L.A.
Weekly, and other publications. He is also a contributing editor of
POZ magazine and In These Times, and the former media critic .
Prior to 1977 he worked on the staff of four presidential campaigns for
liberal Democrats. (See )
In July 2005 he wrote an excellent .
In an e-mail to friends and colleagues soliciting reminiscences he wrote
the following:
&It just kills
me, when I'm invited to talk to college classes, or groups of younger activists,
that when I mention Marcuse's name, the kids have eyes like refrigerators
-- they've never heard of him. The historical-cultural illiteracy of today's
youth bodes very badly for the future. And dear old Herbert, who has so
much to teach them today, is quite ignored... So, may I ask you to help
light a little candle against this darkness and call attention to him?
I've expanded this post considerably since it was first put up yesterday,
and I think it now has enough material to titillate the younger readers
and make them want to explore his writings....&
Russell (b. 1949), professor of history and education at UCLA ().
On Oct. 29, 2004, Jacoby wrote the following in an e-mail to Harold
&I just stumbled
upon your HM site. Wow. Very impressive. You know for what it is worth,
I consider myself a student of HM (although I did not study with him.)
He wrote a blurb to my first book (&Social Amnesia&), etc., etc.&
&Marcuse and the New Academics: A Note on Style,& Telos
no. 8 (Summer 1971)
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology
(Beacon Press, 1975; Transaction, 1997)()
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the
Age of Academe ()()
Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian
Age (Columbia University Press, 2005). ()
several other works listed on his UCLA page.
, published in The
In January 2013 Kurt Jacobsen of
completed a 55 minute documentary about Russell Jacoby (see ), which is available
on the &Humanity Explored& online film festival
website. It is viewable at: .
Peter-Erwin
(b. 1957), studied philosophy, sociology, German studies and political
science at the University of Frankfurt (with Habermas). Editor of Herbert
Marcuse and Leo L&wenthal's unpublished papers.
Since September 2009 Jansen has been teaching courses on Ethics, Introduction
to the Social Sciences, Theories of Social Justice, and Critical Theory at the
Fachhochschule (university of applied sciences) in Koblenz, Germany. ( [link updated 10/5/14])
includes detailed information about his publications.
(courtesy of the Internet Archive)
Jansen authored the
Jansen's suggestions were worked into the , the website of the German Historical Museum (Berlin),
making it the best concise biography available to date.
Editor (with the editorial board of Perspektiven) of Zwischen
Hoffnung und Notwendigkeit: Texte zu Herbert Marcuse (Frankfurt:
Neue Kritik, 1999), 181 S.
at Herbert's grave,
Editor, with the editorial board of &links& magazine, of
Befreiung Denken - Ein politischer Imperativ: Materialien zu
Herbert Marcuse [full title: Befreiung denken, ein politischer
Imperativ: ein Materialienband zu einer politischen Arbeitstagung &ber
Herbert Marcuse am 13. und 14. Oktober 1989 in Frankfurt; Veranstalter,
&links&-Redaktion, &T&te&-Redaktion, ASTA/Linke
Liste, Uni Frankfurt, &links&-Redaktion und dem Sozialistischen
B&ro. (Offenbach: Verlag 2000, [1989] 2nd corrected edition 1990),
210 pages.
This book includes correspondence between Heidegger and Marcuse () and an article by Jansen about Marcuse's failed Habilitation
with Martin Heidegger.
Editor of the 6 volume German edition of Herbert Marcuse's unpublished
papers, Nachgelassene Schriften. More information
on this site at
Publisher A search of the
with the keyword Marcuse will bring up a page with
detailed descriptions of each volume.
Article && in Negations 3(1998);
Editor of &&
(page now only at Internet Archive).
October 29, 2009 Keynote
Address : &,&at
the third biennial
conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, &Marcuse
and the Frankfurt School for a New Generation&
Unversity, Toronto, Canada).
In 2013 he co-published a new art book with images based on quotations from Herbert's works:
Herbert Marcuse. Versprechen, dass es anders sein kann. Promise that paintings: Antje Wichtrey, afterword by Peter-Erwin Jansen. Bilingual reprint of the one-of-a-kind art book by Antje Wichtrey about Hebert Marcuse. Edition Boot, Granada& Frankfurt, 2013, & 25 / $ 30.
The book can be purchased by contacting Peter-Erwin Jansen via email: petererwinjansen(.
You can see .
The quotation text in the background of the sample image above reads (in translation):
&Rationality is indeed an essential aspect of art: making present (re-present) of that which is depressed, hidden, distorted - not as end in itself but as elements in the creation of the aesthetic universe: the universe of form. For it still holds true: form is the triumph over the destructive disorder and order, the banning of fear.&
(b. 19xx),
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil
with full texts her papers, many in Portuguese, including
these in English:
&Marcuse on Phantasy& (2013 Radical Philosophy Review)
&Ideology & Liberation: Crossing the Line& (2011?)
&One-Dimensional Man, Elective Affinities, and Hope&
&Herbert Marcuse e a dimensao estetica no Brasil&
(b. ca. 1957), Dept. of Sociology, Culver-Stockton
College, Canton, Missouri
(2008 listing from the Internet archive)
presentation &Essence, Contingency, and Radical Subjectivity:
Reading Marcuse& at the Marxism 2000 conference ()
Katsiaficas,
George (b. 1949), Department of Sociology Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea () [update 9/17]
From a 2008 email: &I knew Herbert pretty well in the 1970s in San Diego and was tremendously influenced by him. Without his presence in my life, I definitely never would have gone to graduate school, or I suspect, taken myself seriously as an intellectual. I contributed the afterword to Vol. 3 of his collected works edited by Doug Kellner and attach a version of that essay.&
His website, .
Some of his many publications are Marcuse-relevant:
&Marcuse as an Activist: Reminiscences of His Theory and Practice,& in: New Political Science 36:7(Summer/Fall 1996) (); also published as &Marcuse as Activist: Reminiscences on his Theory and Practice,& in: Douglas Kellner (ed.), Herbert Marcuse: The New Left and the 1960s (New York: Routledge, 2005), 192-203.
video (9:20; 307 views Dec. 2014)
&From 1968 to the East Asian Uprisings of the 1980s and 1990s (Gwangju, South Korea in particular) a new type of popular uprising has appeared. Often dubbed &people power& these protests reveal how thousands of ordinary people, acting together in the streets, exhibit an intelligence far greater than elites which today rule over nation-states and international economic institutions. While our elites make wars and preside over a world system in which millions starve to death, ordinary citizens seek to create a world of peace and security. A global uprising against war and neoliberalism could help create a world based on human love for each other--eros.&
(video 14:21; 795 views in Dec. 2014)
&Eros and Revolution& Paper Prepared for the Critical Refusals Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society Philadelphia, October 28, 2011. Available on the web at , where one can also find .
(b. 1943), professor of the philosophy of education at UCLA
maintains the Illuminations website with his writings
on the Frankfurt School (originally at the University of Texas/A
author of Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins, 1989), 270 pages
editor of the projected 6-volume edition of Herbert's unpublished papers
in English
more information on this site at .
In April 2005 seven of Kellner's UCLA students presented at the conference
of the American Educational Research Association.
on News & Articles Page.
Kettler, David (b. 1930), research professor of Social Studies at Bard College, Reinbek, New York
(see also his )
In June and July 2008 emails David wrote the following:
I attended Herbert's sociology classes at Columbia in 1952-3 and spent the next twenty years trying to settle my accounts with the experience, beginning with a Master's Essay on &Plato and the Problem of Social Change,& whose title I still cannot say without falling into his pattern of speech.
Franz Neumann was also always in the mix, both before and after.
In the course of these two decades, I published a bunch of things on Herbert Marcuse, including a long chapter of which I am still not ashamed in a political theory primer edited by two reactionary characters (I even have a longer version, which you would be welcome to have for your archives: I have no correspondence).
Only the rarest HM cognocenti know this long article well enough to excoriate it.
There was also a piece on the aesthetics in Political Theory and a brief memoir in some sociology brochure.
I even once functioned as Herbert Marcuse, when Kurt Wolff had me read a paper for him at an International Sociology meeting: it was in fact a chapter from &One-Dimensional Man,& and it may have been contagious, since I never got to the part that contained the cure.
In more recent work on the 1930s exiles, Marcuse appears mostly in conjunction with Franz Neumann.
There really weren't a hell of a lot of us trying to deal with Marcuse in the early 1950s who'd read &Reason and Revolution& after reading Lukacs, as well as a lot of Hegel and Marx (under Franz Neumann) and who connected so early and so hard. Below is a list of my items in which Marcuse's work played a prominent part, although he was not missing from anything I wrote before the early 1970s, when I'd settled my accounts. He reappears as a historical presence, alongside of Franz Neumann, in many of my more recent writings on the 1930 but I leave those materials out, except for a curious sort of autobiographical fiction I was originally induced to write during a recent visit to Frankfurt. I decided that it would have been pretentious to have printed the title as in fact I thought it, viz., &Neg[oti]ations,& paying tribute to the Marcuse connection I treasured most, even while I gave it up.
Here is the list of those publications:
Plato and the Problem of Social Change. Unpublished MA Thesis Columbia University, 1953.
&The Vocation of Radical Intellectuals,& Politics and Society I (Autumn, 1970), and in Ira Katznelson et al., ed., The Politics and Society Reader, New York: David McKay Company, 1974; pp. 333-359.
&Herbert Marcuse: The Critique of Bourgeois Civilization and Its Transcendence,& in Anthony de Crespigny and Kenneth Minogue, eds., Contemporary Political Philosophers, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975, and London: Methuen, 1976; pp. 1-48 () From the June 2008 email above: &...a long chapter of which I am still not ashamed in a political theory primer edited by two reactionary characters [I even have a longer version ...].
Only the rarest HM cognocenti know this long article well enough to excoriate it.&
&The Aesthetic Dimension of Herbert Marcuse's Social Theory,& Political Theory 10(May, 1982), pp. 267-275.
&Negotiations: Learning from Three Frankfurt Schools,& in Richard Bodek and Simon Lewis, eds. Fruits of Exile (Charleston: University of South Carolina Press, 2008). Preliminary version on Website of Protosociology: Soziologie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft &&
Kofler, Leo (1907-1995), independent Marxist
influenced by Herbert, but by no means his student
on this site
Lamas, Andrew T.
(1954-), Professor of Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Personal website/blog at
, with list of publications
2013: Co-editor of
and contributor to special issue of Radical Philosophy Review on Marcuse
2016: Co-editor, with Todd Wolfson and Peter Funke (eds.), The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements (Philadelphia: Temple, 2016), 410 pages. (, w/ contents and preview)()().
2017: Co-editor of
and contributor to special issue of Radical Philosophy Review on Marcuse
Lauren (b. 19xx),
professor at the Loyola University in Chicago
Loyola University Sociology Dept.
Dr. Langman is primarily a social theorist writing in the tradition
of the Frankfurt School-especially their early concerns with character
and culture, which currently inform questions of identity and hegemony
in a global age. His theoretical writing examines the nature of self, subjectivity
and modernity dealing with questions such as agency, or its lack, as alienation.
His substantive research interests concern the dialects of political economy,
culture and identity in such varied forms as Islamic fundamentalism, alternative
globalization movements and the carnivalization of culture. Dr. Langman
has widely published in these areas and has a forthcoming book on the Carnivalization
of America.
Langman's , Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian
Age (2005)
Raffaele (b. 196x?),
scholar at the University of
Bologna and
(2004-05) also at Columbia University
Fall 2004: visiting scholar at Columbia's department of history with
a project on US-American theo Fall 2005 teaching a
course on 'Theories of Disobedience in Modern and Contemporary Political
Thought' in the political science department.
editor of .
This is the first book in a series titled &Marcusiana,& which
will ultimately republish Hegels Ontologie and Herbert's essays
on the concept of freedom and progress in Freud (first published in 1968
in a small volume Psicoanalisi e politica, by Laterza).
Monographs about Marcuse:
Il Pensiero politico di Marcuse (2000)(see )
Oltre l'uomo a una dimensione: Movimenti e controrivoluzione preventiva
Politica come movimento: Il pensiero di Herbert Marcuse (Edizione
del Mulino, 2005), 336 pages. The first Italian book discussing all of
Marcuse's works, including materials from the archive. (for more information,
On-line publication of
with an introduction
at storicamente.it (June 2005).
Lee, Donald C.
(b. 1936), professor at the University of New Mexico
According to a nice anecdote in a
by Scott Craig, a former philosophy
major at UNM, Lee was one of Herbert's TAs at UCSD.
BA in History and Philosophy at Pomona C Fulbright Scholar
at the University of Tuebingen, GMarine
Corps O study of French at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
MA in Philosophy at UC Berkeley
Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego
taught Philosophy at the University of Mexico for 25 years, and at
Shaanxi Teacher's University in Xian, China, the year ending in the Tiananmen
Square incident in 1989.
now retired in La Jolla
A differential study of California junior college transfer students
at the University of California, Berkeley [by] Donald C. Lee [and] Sidney
Publisher Berkeley: Office of Institutional Research, University of California,
Toward a sound world order: a multidimensional, hierarchical ethical
theory (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1992)
(b. 1939), Professor, School of Policy Studies
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario ()
one of Herbert's students at Brandeis (M.A. in the History of Ideas
Program, 1963), and UCSD (Ph.D., 1969)
author of, among many other titles (),
The Domination of Nature (1974, reprinted 1994).
&Husserl and the Mastery of Nature,& in Telos no.
5 (Spr. 1970)
author of a response to a review of One Dimensional Man in
the NYRB in 1964 ().
Nov. 24, 2011 .
On his profile page as director of the Royal Society of Canada, we
find the following anecdote: &Marcuse,
who had learned his own craft with two of the most famous philosophers
of the twentieth century, Husserl and Heidegger, before fleeing from Germany
in 1932, ran his evening graduate seminars thus: When the door closed on
the room the outside world was suspended (the world in which many of us
had spent the preceding day in antiwar activities) and the 'text' was opened
before us. In the seminar I remember best, the text was the section known
as the 'Doctrine of Essence' in Hegel's Greater Logic, the section that
begins with the chapter on 'Being and Nothing.' We students were asked
in turn to read a sentence and say what we thought it meant in our own
words. In the course of a three-hour seminar we covered on average five
this seminar lasted twenty weeks, so after eight months
of wrenching effort we had completed a hundred pages. When we complained,
we were told that in the 1920s Marcuse had attended Heidegger's seminar
on Aristotle's Metaphysics, and in six months the class never got beyond
the first page of the Greek text. But that class (and we) learned how to
read a difficult text.&
Lerner, Michael (b. 1943). Rabbi, editor of Tikkun magazine.
Rabbi Lerner studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary and was a
student and prot&g& of Abraham Joshua Heschel. He received an A.B. from
Columbia. He
received a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1972 from the University of California
in Berkeley and a second Ph.d. in clinical psychology at the Wright
Institute in
Berkeley in 1977. Founded the
Lerner was chair of the Berkeley chapter of SDS in 1965 and visited
Marcuse, stayed at his home, and
a friendship with him.
In 1969, a statement on the Middle East written
by Michael Lerner and Mario Savio on behalf of the Berkeley Chapter of the Committee
for a Progressive Middle East was published in Judaism, (Fall, 1969),
pp. 483-487. Lerner reports that
Marcuse &was very much supportive& of this statement,& and that in Lerner&s
opinion &the statement summed up his position on Israel at the time& and this is
part of what drew him to attend my religious services& [Michael Lerner to Jack
Jacobs, May 25, 2010].
Michael P. Lerner, &Jewish New Leftism at Berkeley,& Judaism,
18:4(Fall, 1969), p. 473
Lettau, Reinhard
(). Professor
emeritus of literature, UCSD, colleague and friend of Herbert's. Born in
and retired to Germany.
1960 Harvard (?) Dissertation: Utopie und Roman: Untersuchungen
zur Form des deutschen utopischen Romans im 20. Jahrhundert
wrote, among other things: Taeglicher Faschismus: Amerikanische
Evidenz aus 6 Monaten (Munich: Hanser, 1971), 311 p.
Lots of interview footage in documentary
at www.knerger.de, Klaus Nerger's
&Umgang mit dem Tod& website
his daughter (a musician)
Herbert, an economist, anti-nuclear
activist, and former (1988-95) city councilmember in Lingen (Emsland)
commented some quotations from a 1970 Kursbuch article by
Herbert, which he relates to the current (post-9/11/01) &patriot act&
situation in the US
. [added Sept. 2004]
(), fellow German emigre, Marxist socio independent
scholar after McCarthyism
See : One of his important works was Critique of
Herbert Marcuse: The one-dimensional man in class society (),
in which he forcefully rejected the thesis according to which the proletariat,
as Marx understood it, had become a &mythological concept& in
advanced capitalist society. Although he agreed with Marcuse's critical
analysis of the ruling ideology, Mattick demonstrated that the theory of
one dimensionality itself existed only as ideology. Marcuse subsequentially
affirmed that Mattick's critique was the only serious one to which his
book was subjected.
McCarthy, George E.
1946-), Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio since
B.A. summa cum laude, Manhattan College, 1968
M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy, Boston College, 1972
M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology, the New School for Social Research, 1979
Soc 474 course && reads One Dimensional Man, and Counterrevolution and Revolt.
selected publications
Marx' critique of science and positivism : the methodological
foundations of political economy (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988)
Dialectics and decadence: echoes of antiquity in
Marx and Nietzsche (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994).
Romancing Antiquity: German critique of the Enlightenment
from Weber to Habermas (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997)
Objectivity and the silence of reason: Weber, Habermas,
and the methodological disputes in German sociology (New Brunswick: Transaction,
Myriam Malinovich: former
professor of philosophy (Brooklyn College, Rutgers, San Diego State), lecturer
and author of books, articles, Op-Eds, and blogs on social, cultural, and
political issues.
Ph.D in philosophy, Columbia University, 1964: &Gilbert Ryle and
Jean-Paul Sartre: a comparative study of two theories of mind.&
Many of her articles (including an interview with Herbert and an article
about him) appear on her website: :
&,& Social
Research, Spring 1982
&,& Social Research, Summer
On August 7, 2007 Myriam Miedzian wrote in an e-mail:
Now for a bit of personal
history. My ex-husband Stanley Malinovich taught philosophy at UCSD from
1967 to 1972. I was relegated to San Diego State&very typical at
the time. I also taught philosophy.
We soon became friends with Herbert and Inge. We were both very fond of
them. Unlike some Marxists and other left wingers we had known their concern
was not just with humanity, but also with people. They were as kind and
considerate with the person who cleaned their house as with illustrious
colleagues. Herbert had a great sense of humor. I still smile when I think
about how he called my older daughter Brunhilde when she was a baby&she
was known to scream quite a bit. (Her real name is Nadia and by the way,
she got her Ph.D. in Modern European History from Michigan&her area
is French Jewish History. She got there in &91, so you just overlapped
one year.)
Most recently the author of: He Walked Through Walls: A Twentieth Century Tale of Survival (Lantern Books, 2009; )--this is her father's &memoir,& focused on how he managed to survive three twentieth century European wars.
Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking The Link Between Masculinity
Violence (Doubleday 1991, revised edition Lantern
Generations: A Century Of Women Speak About Their
Lives (The Atlantic
Monthly Press, 1997)
Op-Eds and Blogs include: Chicago Tribune, Boston
Globe, Miami Herald,
Philadelphia Enquirer, Seattle Times, Huffington Post
Public Speaking and Media: Princeton,
Harvard, Duke, California
Attorney General & Department of Education Conference, Barcelona II
International Citizens Meeting, Charlie Rose, Larry King. Also advised
Clinton Administration&s Violence Prevention Task Force, and testified
before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Children,
Youth, and Families.
Bill. (1934-),
television journalist (retired 2004), practitioner of &deep-think&
journalism.
print journalist, ordained Baptist minister, press secretary to President
Lyndon Johnson, and newspaper publisher before coming to television in
1970. See .
In a , &Second Thoughts:
Reflections on the Great Society,& Moyers wrote:
' Compromise with the
Powers That Be
In 1965, I sent to the President an essay by Herbert Marcuse, the leftist
philosopher so admired by the student movement, in which Marcuse applauded
LBJ's objectives, but doubted the government's ability to stay the course.
&Rebuilding the cities, restoring the countryside, redeeming the poor
and reforming education,& said Marcuse, &could produce nondestructive
full employment. This requires,& he said, ''nothing more, nothing
less than the actual reconstruction outlined in the President's program.
But the very program,& he said, &requires the transformation
of power structures standing in the way of its fulfillment.&
Muller, Jerry Z.
Professor at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC; main fields:
modern European
modern Germany
with CV, publications, syllabiBA in history from Brandeis, 1977; PhD., history, Columbia 1984
selected books:
The other god that failed : Hans Freyer and the
deradicalization of German conservatism (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1987).Adam Smith in his time and ours: designing the
decent society (New York: Free Press, 1993).
(ed.), Conservatism: an anthology of social and
political thought from David Hume to the present (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997).
M&ller, Tim B.
(1978-), intellectual historian, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
at the Humboldt University, Berlin (since 2005), contributor to the S&ddeutsche
Zeitung (since 2001)
at the HU (2007): &Der Gelehrte als Krieger:
Ideengeschichte, Neue Linke und das OSS& MA in history from Heidelberg University (2004): &Herbert Marcuse,
die Frankfurter Schule und der Holocaust: Ein Beitrag zur zeitgenoessischen
Wahrnehmung der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungspolitik.& (; )
Selected Publications:
Die gelehrten Krieger und die Rockefeller-Revolution.
Intellektuelle zwischen Geheimdienst, Neuer Linken und dem Entwurf einer
neuen Ideengeschichte, in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 33 (2007),
S. 198-227Der Intellektuelle, der aus der K&lte kam, in:
Zeitschrift f&r Ideengeschichte 1/4 (2007), S. 5-18.Die geheime Geschichte des Herbert Marcuse, in:
&Asthetik & Kommunikation 129/130 (Herbst 2005), S. 131-141.review of Nachgelassene Schriften Band 3: Philosophie
und Psychoanalyse, in S&ddeutsche Zeitung 4. Jan.
2003 ()review of Nachgelassene Schriften Band 4: Die
Studentenbewegung, in S&ddeutsche Zeitung 29. Juli
2004 ()review of Nachgelassene Schriften Band 5, Feindanalysen
in S&ddeutsche Zeitung [coming 2007-08] (text at
buecher.de)review of Adorno-Horkheimer Briefwechsel, ,
in S&ddeutsche Zeitung 5. Oktober 2004 (; ) (with discussion about Marcuse)
Bearing Witness to the Liquidation of Western Dasein:
Herbert Marcuse and the Holocaust, , in: New German Critique
85 (2002), S. 133-164 (
(b. 1934), Professor emeritus of Sociology, University of Hannover (since
co-author of Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of
the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere (Theory and History of
Literature)(Univ. of Minnesota, 1993)main publication (with Alexander Kluge): Geschichte und Eigensinn
co-editor of journal Hannoversche Schriften
Neri, Debora (b. 1982), Italian scholar studying Herbert's early works, in 2011 waiting to be admitted to a doctoral program.
In 2008 Debora received a Master's degree in History of Contemporary Philosophy with the Thesis La societ& unidimensionale e il suo superamento. Un confronto tra la posizione di Herbert Marcuse e quella di Jack Kerouac
Gabriele D&Annunzio University in Chieti. (see entry on the , with an E also ). In 2011 she worked on Marcuse&s interpretation of Hegel, through the analysis of Marcuse&s works of the thirties.
2013: Debora's revised thesis has been published as a book, Torno cos& ai Beatniks: Immaginazione critica e rivolta nell'estetica dell'esistenza da Marcuse alla Beat Generation ['Thus I Return to the Beatniks: Critical Imagination and Revolt in
the Aesthetics of Being from Marcuse to the Beat Generation'](Edizioni Tracce, 2013), 224 pages ().
According to the translated blurb, the book is 'an extension and integration of her 2008 thesis. It combines the work of philosophical-historical research, which specifically engages the author (the thought of Herbert Marcuse), with a passion for the literature of American beat.'
'Neri is currently working on analyzing the philosophical speculation of the young Marcuse and, specifically, his humanistic Marxism, through a critical examination of his texts from 1928 to 1941 in comparison with the works of thinkers who had the greatest impact on their formation, i.e. Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Dilthey, Luk&cs and Korsch.'
You can contact her at
Nicholsen,
1941), visiting professor of German Studies, private psychoanalytic practice
(2007) contributor to Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left,
edited by John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes (Kansas, 1994) translator of works by Adorno and other critical theorists, including
Herbert's Five Lectures (1970). Her publications include:
&Aesthetic experience and self-reflection as emancipatory
processes: two complementary aspects of critical theory& (UC Irvine
Social Science Working Paper 65, 1975)Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics
(MIT Press, 1997)
The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The
Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern (MIT Press, 2002)
Ph.D., Comparative literature, Cornell }