Eros and revolution : : the critical philosophy of Herbert Marcuse / / by Javier Sethness Castro.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 86
• VerfasserIn: Sethness-Castro, Javier,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 86.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In Eros and Revolution , Javier Sethness Castro presents a comprehensive intellectual and political biography of the world-renowned critical theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979). Investigating the origins and development of Marcuse's dialectical approach vis-à-vis Hegel, Marx, Fourier, Heidegger, and Freud as well as the central figures of the Frankfurt School—Horkheimer, Adorno, Neumann, Fromm, and Benjamin—Sethness Castro chronicles the radical philosopher's lifelong activism in favor of anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and anti-authoritarianism together with Marcuse's defiant revindication of global libertarian-socialist revolution as the precondition for the realization of reason, freedom, and human happiness. Beyond examining Marcuse's revolutionary life and contributions, moreover, the author contemplates the philosopher's relevance to contemporary struggle, especially with regard to ecology, feminism, anarchism, and the general cause of worldwide social transformation.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Marcuse, the Utopian -- Early Years: Childhood and Youth, War and Revolution, Romanticism, Utopian Socialism, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger -- Militant Theorizing in Resistance to Fascism, 1933–1945 -- State, Freud, and Orphic Marxism: 1945–1960 -- Radical Struggle in the 1960s -- Marcuse’s Final Decade: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Intensification (1970–1979) -- Nature and Revolution -- Critique of Marcuse -- Marcusean Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- References -- Index.