[FRA:] Marcuse question

[matthew piscioneri]

Simon,

thanks for the Adorno quote - yes, a very direct answer to my post. In 
particular this:

>The universal tendency towards oppression is opposed to thought as such. 
>Thought is happiness, even where it defines unhappiness: by enunciating it. 
>By this alone happiness reaches into the universal unhappiness. Whoever 
>refuses to permit this thought to be taken from him has not resigned."

I'm not sure I agree with Adorno, mainly because I am not sure I understand 
what he is getting at, which says more about me than Adorno. it certainly 
seems to be a movement on from the logic of identity thesis in Negative 
Dialectics and his theory of mimesis. For as far as I understand his logic 
of identity it is in the act of thinking-naming that the tendency toward 
oppression emerges: the subsumption of particulars under the universal and 
the denial of the particular's residual uniqueness etc.

Do you or anybody know when the essay was first published?

Thanks,

mattp