'the Great Refusal' (fwd)

[kellner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu]

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Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 06:46:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: kellner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
To: Russell Jacoby <rjacoby@ucla.edu>
Cc: frankfurt-school@jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: 'the Great Refusal'

Andre Breton used the phrase "the Great Refusal" though it is unlikely 
that Whitehead got it from him; given that Marcuse was a devotee of 
French literature he might well have originally encountered the phrase 
there, though I don't think he ever actually attributes Breton as the 
source of the term.

Stay tuned for launching of Critical Theory Website this week. If Russell 
and others can send me disks of their work that they'd like posted or 
links to their website they could be part of the project. More later.
Douglas Kellner kellner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Dept of Philosophy, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

On Fri, 24 May 1996, Russell Jacoby wrote:

>  Marcuse in "Eros and Civilization" explicitly takes the concept of "the
> great refusal" from Alfred N. Whitehead's "Science and the Modern World."
> In Whitehead, however, the phrase is already in quotation marks. Questions:
> Does he originate the phrase?  Where does it come from?  Suggestions? Answers?
> 
> Russell Jacoby
> rjacoby@ucla.edu
> 
>