[FRA:] Marcuse On Science and Phenomenology

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I agree with Ralph on this: marcuse read husserl via heidegger, and for a  
contrast on this with FS tradition, best to read Adorno's studies on Husserl.  
the task of recovering the immediacy / particularlity of the details of  
lived-experience from reified interpretations / over-generalised  conceptualisation 
/ mathematisations clearly influence some but only some  aspects of TA's 
negative dialectics. Husserl remain committed to a social  science of 
lived-experience and the recovery of genuine science from  positivistic distortions.
 
Michael S
 
In a message dated 08/04/2006 17:16:58 GMT Standard Time, rdumain at igc.org  
writes:

Now on  my web site:

On Science and Phenomenology by Herbert  Marcuse
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/marcuse7.html

Comment  on the Paper by H. Marcuse by Aron  Gurwitsch
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/marcuse8.html

I've  not seen this essay from 1964 collected in any books, nor have I seen 
it  referred to save in Harold Marcuse's online bibliography.  Curiously,  
this piece and Gurwitsch's response are in volume 2 of the noted series  
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.  Also curiously, this  volume 
seems to have dropped off the map.  The current publisher that  owns the 
series does not even list it as part of the series, let alone  offer it in 
print.  I don't know how many times BSPS switched  publishers (Or got 
swallowed up through mergers), but none of the Dutch or  German publishers 
were involved at this point, so it's not obvious to me  even who owns the 
copyright.  Anyway, this Marcuse essay is hereby  rescued from oblivion.

I am not well-informed as to either Marcuse's  early development nor 
Heidegger's, but given Marcuse's account of  Husserl's critique of the 
modern scientific mind as technological and  reified, is it possible that he 
reads Husserl through the lenses of  Marcuse's teacher Heidegger?  I note 
that Gurwitsch objects to the  technological claim, insisting that Husserl 
is really on about  formalization and algorithmization, not the 
technological attitude  underlying modern science.  Not knowing about 
Heidegger's relation to  Husserl's thought, I wonder: Marcuse's account of 
Husserl reminds me of  Heidegger's line on the forgetting of Being.  Did 
Heidegger transmute  Husserl's schema to concoct this spin on things?  If 
so, I'd say  Heidegger is an inferior thinker to Husserl, and the 
transformation of the  latter's ideas takes on an ominous  coloration.



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