Culture And Critique by Jere Paul Surber

Author:Jere Paul Surber [Surber, Jere Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780429969720
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, and the New Left: Marcuse

While most members of the Frankfurt School returned to Germany after the war, Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) remained in the United States, teaching at Brandéis University and the University of California. Unlike most other members of the institute, which he joined in 1932, Marcuse’s background was specifically in philosophy and included previous study with both Husserl and Heidegger. However, although Marcuse was probably the most theoretically inclined of the group, his work during the war for the U.S. State Department in the Eastern European section and his postwar concerns with continuing patterns of domination in the postwar United States lent his work a somewhat more engaged tone and radical edge than that of his colleagues. However, while some aspects of Marcuse’s thought pointed in directions different from those of his Frankfurt School colleagues, the theoretical underpinnings of his views were largely consistent with the concepts that we have already considered. In fact, it was to a great extent through Marcuse’s writings that the work of the Frankfurt School achieved its widest hearing and most concrete practical influence, especially on the American New Left.

Marcuse’s major contributions to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School can be grouped under three headings: his attempt to fully integrate psychoanalysis into radical social theory; his theory of the one-dimensional character of contemporary culture and society; and his concept of cultural opposition and liberation, which especially influenced the American New Left and counterculture of the 1960s.

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