Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (left) with his then UC San Diego graduate student Angela Davis, c.1969. Both spoke at a rally at UC Berkeley (1969) (video).

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Works

Monographs

• Hegels Ontologie und die Grundlegung einer Theorie der Geschichtlichtkeit, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1932; 2nd ed. as Hegels Ontologie und die Theorie der Geschichtlichtkeit, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1968; 3rd ed., 1975; Suhrkamp, 1989. (German). University of Freiburg Habilitation.
  • Ontología de Hegel y teoría de la historicidad, Barcelona: Martínez Roca, 1970. (Spanish)
  • L'ontologie de Hegel et la théorie de l'historicité, trans. G. Raulet and H.A. Baatsch, Paris: Minuit, 1972, 342 pp. (French)
  • Hegel's Ontology and Theory of Historicity, trans. Seyla Benhabib, MIT Press, 1987.
• Reason and Revolution: An Introduction to the Dialectical Thinking of Hegel and Marx, Oxford University Press, 1941, 431 pp; 2nd ed. as Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1955; Boston: Beacon Press, 1960; New York: Humanities Press 1963; 1989; 1999.
  • Vernunft und Revolution: Hegel und die Entstehung der Gesellschafts-theorie, trans. Alfred Schmidt, Neuwied/Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1962; 1972. (German)
  • Raison et révolution: Hegel et la naissance de la théorie sociale, trans. Robert Castel and Pierre-Henri Gonthier, Paris: Minuit, 1968. (French)
  • Razón y revolución: Hegel y el surgimiento de la teoria social, Madrid: Alianza, 1971; 7th ed., 1983; Barcelona: Altaya, 1994. (Spanish)
  • Λόγος και επανάσταση: Ο Χέγκελ και η γένεση της κοινωνικής θεωρίας, trans. Γεράσιμος Λυκιαρδόπουλος, 1985; Athens, 1999. (Greek)
• Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Boston: Beacon Press, 1955; Routledge, 1998. [1]
  • Eros und Kultur. Ein philosophischer Beitrag zu Sigmund Freud, trans. Marianne von Eckardt-Jaffe, Stuttgart: Klett, 1957; new ed. as Triebstruktur und Gesellschaft. Ein philosophischer Beitrag zu Sigmund Freud, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1965; 17th ed., 1995. (German)
  • Eros y civilización, trans. Juan García Ponce, México: Joaquín Mortiz, 1965; Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1968; Barcelona: Ariel, 1981, 253 pp; Madrid: Sarpe, 1983. (Spanish)
  • Eros et civilisation: contribution à Freud trans. Jean-Guy Nény and Boris Fraenkel, Paris: Minuit/Seuil, 1971, 252 pp. (French)
  • Eros e civilização: Uma interpretação filosófica do pensamento de Freud, trans. Álvaro Cabral, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 6th ed., 1975. (Portuguese) [2]
  • Éros kai politismós [Έρως και πολιτισμός] , trans. Iordánis Arzóglou [Ιορδάνης Αρζόγλου], Athens, 1981. (Greek)
  • Eros i civilizacija: Filozofsko istraživanje Freuda, trans. Tomislav Ladan, Zagreb: Naprijed, 1985. (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Eros e civiltà, Einaudi, 2001. (Italian)
• Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958; Columbia University Press, 1958; 1985.
  • El marxismo soviético, trans. Juan M. de la Vega, Madrid: Alianza, 1969; 2nd ed., 1969; 3rd ed., 1971; 4th ed., 1975. (Spanish)
  • Le marxisme soviétique: essai d'analyse critique, trans. Bernard Cazes, Paris: Gallimard, 1971, 378 pp. (French)
  • Die Gesellschaftslehre des sowjetischen Marxismus, Darmstadt/Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1974. (German)
• One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964, 260 pp; 2nd ed., Routledge, 1991; 1994; 1999; 2002; 2006; 2007.
  • El Hombre unidimensional, trans. Antonio Elorza, México: Joaquín Mortiz, 1965; Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1968; 9th ed., 1972. (Spanish)
  • Der eindimensionale Mensch, trans. Alfred Schmidt, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1967. (German)
  • L'homme unidimensionnel: essai sur l'idéologie de la société industrielle avancée, trans. Monique Wittig, Paris: Minuit, 1968, 284 pp. (French)
  • L'uomo a una dimensione: l'ideologia della societa` industriale avanzata, trans. Luciano Gallino and Tilde Giani Gallino, Torino: Einaudi, 1967; 11th ed., 1971; 1999. (Italian)
  • Lógos kai epanástasi: O Chénkel kai i génesi tis koinonikís theorías [Ο μονοδιάστατος άνθρωπος] , trans. Gerásimos Lykiardópoulos [Μπάμπης Λυκούδης], Athens, 1971. (Greek)
  • Tek-Boyutlu Insan, trans. Aziz Yardimli, 1986. (Turkish)
  • Jednorozměrný člověk, trans. Miroslav Rýdl, Prague: Naše vojsko, 1991, 192 pp. (Czech)
  • Njeriu njëdimensional, trans. Gaqo Karakshi, Tiranë, 2006. (in Albanian)
• with Robert Paul Wolff and Barrington Moore, Jr., A Critique of Pure Tolerance, Boston: Beacon Press, 1965, 123 pp.
  • Critique de la tolérance pure, éditions John Didier, 1969. (French)
• Kultur und Gesellschaft 1, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1965; 12th ed., 1975; Kultur und Gesellschaft 2, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1965; 10th ed., 1979. (German)
  • Ética de la revolución, Madrid: Taurus, 1969; 2nd ed., 1970; 3rd ed., 1970. (Spanish)
  • Culture et société, trans. Gérard Billy, Daniel Bresson, and Jean-Baptiste Grasset, Paris: Minuit, 1970, 391 pp. (French)
  • Cultura y sociedad, Buenos Aires: Sur, 1978. (Spanish). Contains a selection of 4 articles from the 2 German vols.
• Ende der Utopie, Berlin: Verlag Peter von Maikowski, 1967.
  • La fin de l'utopie, Paris: Seuil, 1968. (French)
• Negations: Essays in Critical Theory, trans. Jeremy J. Shapiro, London: Penguin, 1968; Boston: Beacon, 1969; London: Free Association, 1988; MayFlyBooks, 2009.
• Psychoanalyse und Politik, Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1968; 6th ed., 1980. (German)
  • Psicoanálisis y política, Barcelona: Península, 1968; 1969; 1973. (Spanish)
  • Psychoanalýza a politika, Prague: Svoboda, 1970. (Czech)
  • "A noção de progresso à luz da psicanálise", trans. Isabel Loureiro, in Marcuse, Cultura e psicanálise, São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2001, pp 112-139. (Portuguese)
  • Five Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia, trans. Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shierry M. Weber, Boston: Beacon Press, 1970; London: Penguin, 1970. Four of these lectures appear in Psychoanalyse und Politik.
• Ideen zu einer kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1969. (German)
  • Pour une théorie critique de la société, trans. Cornélius Heim, Paris: Denoël-Gonthier, 1971, 224 pp. (French)
  • Para una teoría crítica de la sociedad: Ensayos, trans. Claudine Lemoine de Francia, Caracas: Tiempo Nuevo, 1971. (Spanish)
• Sociedad industrial y el Marxismo, trans. Alberto Jose Massolo, Buenos Aires: Quintinaria, 1969. (Spanish)
• An Essay on Liberation, Boston: Beacon Press, 1969, 91 pp.
  • Versuch über die Befreiung, trans. Helmut Reinicke and Alfred Schmidt, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1969. (German)
  • Un ensayo sobre la liberación, trans. Juan García Ponce, México: Joaquín Mortiz, 1969, 94 pp. (Spanish)
  • Vers la libération: au-delà de l'homme unidimensionnel, trans. Jean-Baptiste Grasset, Paris: Denoël-Gonthier, 1972, 172 pp. (French)
• Sociedad carnívora, Buenos Aires: Eco Contemporáneo, 1970. (Spanish)
• Studies in Critical Philosophy, trans. Joris de Bres, New Left Books, 1972; Boston: Beacon Press, 1973, 227 pp.
• Revolution oder Reform?, Munich: Kosel-Verlag, 1972. Confrontation with Karl Popper. (German)
  • Revolution or Reform: A Confrontation, Chicago: New University Press, 1976. (English)
• Counter-Revolution and Revolt, Boston: Beacon Press, 1972, 138 pp.
  • Contre-révolution et révolte, trans. Didier Coste, Paris: Seuil, 1973, 172 pp. (French)
  • Contrarrevolución y revuelta, México: Joaquín Mortiz, 1975. (Spanish)
• Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte marxistische Ästhetik: Ein Essay, Munich: Hanser, 1977, 77 pp. (German)
  • The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics, trans. Herbert Marcuse and Erica Sherover, Boston: Beacon Press, 1978, 88 pp.
  • La dimension esthétique, trans. Didier Coste, Paris: Seuil, 1979, 82 pp. (French)
  • La dimensione estetica e altri scritti: un'educazione politica tra rivolta e trascendenza, Milan: Guerini, 2002. (Italian)
  • La dimensión estética: Crítica de la ortodoxia marxista, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2007. (Spanish)
• Scrieri filozofice, trans. Ion Herdan, Sorin Vieru and Vasile Dem. Zamfirescu, Bucharest: Politică, 1977. (Romanian)

Talks

Most of the talks of Herbert Marcuse have been published in the Collected Papers volumes.

• "The Movement in a New Era of Repression: An Assessment", Berkeley Journal of Sociology 16 (1971-1972), pp 1-14. Delivered at the University of California on 3 February 1971.
• "Zeit-Messungen: Drei Vorträge und ein interview", Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1975.
  • Contains "Marxism and Feminism", "Theory and Practice" and an expanded version of "Failure of the New Left", translated into Collected Papers. (English)
  • Actuels, Paris: Galilée, 1976. (French)
  • Calas en nuestro tiempo, Barcelona: Icaria, 1976. (Spanish)
• "Marxism and Feminism", 1974. Delivered at Stanford U on 7 Mar 1974.
  • "Markiszm i feminizm" [Марксизм и феминизм], trans. Kirill Medvedev (Кирилл Медведев), Slobodnoe marksistskoe izdatelstvo, 2008. Audio. (Russian)
• "Ecology and the Critique of Modern Society", [1979], Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 3:3 (1992), pp 29-37. With commentaries by Andrew Feenberg, Joel Kovel, Douglas Kellner and C. Fred Alford (pp 37-48).

Collected writings

• Philosophie et révolution, Denoël-Gonthier, 1971. Contains 1930's works : "On Concrete Philosophy" ("Sur la philosophie concrète"), "Transcendental Marxism ?" ("Marxisme transcendantal ?"), "The Foundation of Historical Materialism" ("Les manuscrits économico-philosophiques de Marx") (French)
• Schriften, 9 Vols, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1978-1989; Springe: Zu Klampen, 2004. (German)
• Heideggerian Marxism, University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Contains several works of the 1920-1930's when Marcuse was Heidegger's student. (English)
• Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, ed. Douglas Kellner, London: Routledge, 1998-2012.
  • Vol. 1, Technology, War and Fascism, 1998, 278 pp.
  • Vol. 2, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, 2001.
  • Vol. 3, Foundation of the Left and the 1960s, 2005.
  • Vol. 4, Art and Liberation, 2007.
  • Vol. 5, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation, 2011.
  • Vol. 6, Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, 2012.
• Nachgelassene Schriften, 6 Vols, ed. Peter-Erwin Jansen, Lüneburg/Springe: Dietrich zu Klampen, 1999-2009. (German)
  • Bd. 1: Das Schicksal der bürgerlichen Demokratie, trans. Michael Haupt, 1999.
  • Bd. 2: Kunst und Befreiung, trans. Michael Haupt and Stephan Bundschuh, 2000.
  • Bd. 3: Philosophie und Psychologie, trans. Cornelia Lösch, 2002.
  • Bd. 4: Die Studentenbewegung und ihre Folgen, trans. Thomas Laugstien, 2004.
  • Bd. 5: Feindanalysen. Über die Deutschen, trans. Michael Haupt, 2007.
  • Bd. 6: Ökologie und Gesellschaftskritik, trans. Thomas Laugstien, 2009.

Literature

• Douglas Kellner, Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, London: Macmillan, and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
• Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson, Peter N. Funke (eds.), The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements, forew. Angela Y. Davis, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2017, xvi+424 pp.
• Craig Leonard, Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse, forew. Nathifa Greene, MIT Press, 2022, 256 pp. Publisher.

Bibliographies

• Works by Marcuse, compiled by Harold Marcuse.
• Books, Articles and Reviews about Marcuse, compiled by Harold Marcuse.
• Compiled by Joan Nordquist, 2000.
• Compiled by Karl-Heinz Sahmel, 1979. (German)
• Works by Marcuse, compiled by P. Deramaix. (French)
• Works on Marcuse, compiled by P. Deramaix. (French)

Links

• http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/index.htm
• http://1libertaire.free.fr/Marcuse01.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse