Marcuse enthusiasts will be interested to know that there was a 2-day conference at Brandeis University in 2014 called The Many Dimensions of Herbert Marcuse . (Marcuse taught at Brandeis from 1954 to 1965.) Brandeis maintains a webpage for the conference archiving videos of more than 30 presentatio...

LapTopPhilosopher - You are correct! This is not one of those fake quotes you sometimes (often?) see attributed to Hegel, Marx and/or Lenin. The exact quote is: Aphorism: It is impossible completely to understand Marx's Capital , and especially its first chapter, without having thoroughly studied an...

My copy of Marcuse's Reason & Revolution is a reprint of the original 1941 version, so I was surprised to learn that in 1960 Marcuse wrote a new preface for the book called "A Note on Dialectic", which I had never seen before. If your copy of R & R doesn't have it, the essay has be...

Marcuse's Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958) Soviet Marxism is nowhere more "orthodox" than in its painful elaboration of the dialectical method; we shall see that not one of the above mentioned innovations in itself runs counter to the Marxian (and even Hegelian) dialectical logic...

In the summer of 1967 Herbert Marcuse spoke at The Congress of the Dialectics of Liberation held in London. Other participants included political activist Stokely Carmichael, psychiatrist R. D. Laing and poet Allan Ginsberg. We are dealing with the dialectics of liberation (actually a redundant phra...