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xi, 436 p. 24 cm. |
| Note |
Essay index. |
| Bibliography |
Marcuse bibliography: p. 427-433. |
| Contents |
Introduction: What is the critical spirit? Utopianism, ancient and modern / M.I. Finley -- Primitive society in its many dimensions / S. Diamond -- Manacheanism in the Enlightenment / R.H. Popkin -- Schopenhauer today / M. Horkheimer -- Beginning in Hegel and today / K.H. Wolff -- The social history of ideas: Ernst Cassirer and after / P. Gay -- Policies of violence, from Montesquieu to the Terrorist / E.V. Walter -- Thirty-nine articles: toward a theory of social theory / J.R. Seeley -- History as private enterprise / H. Zinn -- From Socrates to Plato / H. Meyerhoff -- Rationed society and irrational art / H. Read -- The quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris / C.E. Schorske -- Valery: Monsieur Teste / L. Goldmann -- History and existentialism in Sartre / L. Krieger -- German popular biographies: culture's bargain counter / L. Lowenthal -- The Rechtsstaat as magic wall / O. Kirchheimer -- Revolution from above: some notes on the decision to collectivize Soviet agriculture / E.H. Carr -- Winston Churchill, power politician and counter revolutionary / A.J. Mayer -- Brahmins and business, 1870-1914: a hypothesis on the social basis of success in American history / G. Kolko -- On the limits of professional thought / M.R. Stein -- The limits of integration / P. Mattick -- The society nobody wants: a look beyond Marxism and literalism -- Marcuse as teacher / W. Leiss, J.D. Cher, E. Sherover. |
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Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979
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Philosophy
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Industries -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Wolff, Kurt H., 1912-2003.
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Moore, Barrington, 1913-2005.
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