[FRA:] Marcuse--introductions & surveys

[steve.devos at krokodile.co.uk]

The most interesting text in recent years that I've read is - Andrew 
Feenberg's: Heidegger and Marcuse The catastrophe and redemption of 
history - Routledge - new york/london 2005.

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Ralph Dumain wrote:

> I'm not up on introductory surveys of Marcuse. In my personal library, 
> I have the following books on Marcuse:
>
> Paul Breines, ed., Critical Interruptions: New Left Perspectives on 
> Herbert Marcuse, 1970.
> Harold Bleich, The Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, 1977.
> Morton Schoolman, The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of 
> Herbert Marcuse, 1980.
> Barry Katz, Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation, 1982.
> Charles Reitz, Art, Alienation, and the Humanities: A Critical 
> Engagement with Herbert Marcuse, 2000.
>
> I don't know what to recommend as the key introductions/surveys of the 
> thought of Marcuse.  One of my sources claims that the first three of 
> these books are inferior, and recommends this one:
>
> Kellner, Douglas: Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (London 
> and Berkeley: Macmillan and University of California Press, 1984).
>
> Any comments on this book, esp. as a survey of Marcuse's thought and 
> its evolution?  Any other recommendations?
>
> I looked over the secondary literature on the official Marcuse site, 
> and saw a few other books of possible general interest.  I made note 
> of this one:
>
> Robert Pippin, Andrew Feenberg, and Charles P. Webel et al, Marcuse: 
> Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia, (Bergin & Garvey, 1987).
>
> Any comments on this one?
>
>
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