Description
The Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) studied with Martin Heidegger at Freiburg University from 1928 to 1932 and completed a dissertation on Hegel's theory of historicity under Heidegger's supervision. During these years, Marcuse wrote a number of provocative philosophical essays experimenting with the possibilities of Heideggerian Marxism. For a time he believed that Heidegger's ideas could revitalize Marxism, providing a dimension of experiential concreteness that was sorely lacking in the German Idealist tradition. Ultimately, two events deterred Marcuse from completing this program: the 1932 publication of Marx's early economic and philosophical manuscripts, and Heidegger's conversion to Nazism a year later. Heideggerian Marxism offers rich and fascinating testimony concerning the first attempt to fuse Marxism and existentialism. These essays offer invaluable insight concerning Marcuse's early philosophical evolution. They document one of the century's most important Marxist philosophers attempting to respond to the "crisis of Marxism": the failure of the European revolution coupled with the growing repression in the USSR. In response, Marcuse contrived an imaginative and original theoretical synthesis: "existential Marxism."
Collection of 1929-1932 essays on politics, economics, society, and philosophy by a leading European intellectual, Herbert Marcuse, that were heavily influenced by another important intellectual, Martin Heidegger.
About the Author
Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Political Science, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of, among other works, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Loewith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse and The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Poststructuralism. John Abromeit is an assistant professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. He is the coeditor, with W. Mark Cobb, of Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader.
Book Information
ISBN 9780803283121
Author Herbert Marcuse
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 363g
Collection of 1929-1932 essays on politics, economics, society, and philosophy by a leading European intellectual, Herbert Marcuse, that were heavily influenced by another important intellectual, Martin Heidegger.
About the Author
Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Political Science, and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of, among other works, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Loewith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse and The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Poststructuralism. John Abromeit is an assistant professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. He is the coeditor, with W. Mark Cobb, of Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader.
Book Information
ISBN 9780803283121
Author Herbert Marcuse
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 363g
