The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. "Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it," he proposed, "as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall be unable then to suppress a feeling of surprise and …

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by “timeless” standards of morality. In this succ…

The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world s racist populists in places as far apart as hungary and arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer an…

Towards a Critical Theory of Society

This second volume of Marcuse's collected papers includes unpublished manuscripts from the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as Beyond One-Dimensional Man, Cultural Revolution and The Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy, as well as a rich collection of letters. It shows Marcuse at his most radical, focusing on his critical theory of contemporary society, his analyses of technology, capitalism…

For They Know Not What They do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor

Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father’s prohibition. Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing…

The Aesthetic Dimension: Taward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetic

Developing a concept briefly introduced in Counterrevolution and Revolt, Marcuse here addresses the shortcomings of Marxist aesthetic theory and explores a dialectical aesthetic in which art functions as the conscience of society. Marcuse argues that art is the only form or expression that can take up where religion and philosophy fail and contends that aesthetics offers the last refuge for two…

Heideggerian Marxism

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 th…

Cultural Memory in the Present

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xix + 282 pg.; 28 cm.

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Critical Theory: Selected Essays

These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their histor…

Konseling dan Psikoterapi

Perkembangan serta pengembangan konseling dan psikoterapi berlangsung terus dengan ciri dan popularitas penerapannya yang dipengaruhi oleh berbagai fasilitas yang mendukungnya, di samping kondisi khusus setempat dengan latar belakang sosialbudayanya. Mustahil kita mengikuti arus perkembangan ini lebih mendalam, tanpa membawa serta pengalaman praktis dan mungkin juga empiris. Hal ini yang hen…