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by HerbM
Mon Nov 30, 2020 7:15 am
Forum: Critical Theory
Topic: Many Dimensions of Marcuse
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Many Dimensions of Marcuse

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...
by HerbM
Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:02 am
Forum: Marx/Engels Forum
Topic: Lenin on Marx & Hegel
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Re: Lenin on Marx & Hegel

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...
by HerbM
Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:48 am
Forum: Critical Theory
Topic: Marcuse: "This is not 'existentialism'."
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Marcuse: "This is not 'existentialism'."

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...
by HerbM
Tue Nov 03, 2020 9:48 pm
Forum: Marx/Engels Forum
Topic: "Dialectic and Its Vicissitudes"—Marcuse's Critique of Soviet Marxism
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"Dialectic and Its Vicissitudes"—Marcuse's Critique of Soviet Marxism

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...
by HerbM
Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:18 pm
Forum: Critical Theory
Topic: "Dialectics of Liberation" (Marcuse)
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"Dialectics of Liberation" (Marcuse)

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...