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Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955; second edition, 1966) is a book by the German philosopher and social critic Herbert Marcuse, in which the author proposes a non-repressive society, attempts a synthesis of the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, and explores the potential of collective memory to be a source ...
- Herbert Marcuse
- 1955
Herbert Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization (EC) provides an exciting and compelling articulation of his perspectives on contemporary civilization, domination, and liberation. Written at the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s, Marcuse’s epic of emancipation sketches out his vision of a free and non-repressive civilization during
Eros and Civilization. Written: 1955. Source: Eros and Civilization, A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Herbert Marcuse. With a New Preface by the Author, published by Beacon Press, Boston, 1966; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden; Proofed: and corrected by Chris Clayton 2006. Contents. Prefaces. Political Preface 1966. Preface to First Edition.
“By nature,” the young are in the forefront of those who live and fight for Eros against Death, and against a civilization which strives to shorten the “detour to death” while controlling the means for lengthening the detour.
Nov 14, 2012 · English. Includes bibliographical references. The hidden trend in psychoanalysis -- The origin of the repressed individual (ontogenesis) -- The origin of repressive civilization (phylogenesis) -- The dialectic of civilization -- Philosophical interlude -- The historical limits of the established reality principle -- Phantasy and utopia -- The ...
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Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism. In this classic work, Herbert Marcuse takes as his starting point Freud's statement that civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human.
