Description
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 instincts, his reconstruction of the prehistory of mankind - to an interpretation of the basic trends of western civilization, stressing the philosophical and sociological implications.
Author: Herbert Marcuse
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 09/15/1974
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9780807015551
ISBN10: 0807015555
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Psychology | Movements | Psychoanalysis
About the Author
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.