Technology, War and Fascism: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 1

by Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner (Editor)

Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin. Marcuse's critical social theory ingeniously fuses phenomenology, Freudian thought and Marxist theory; and provides a solid ground for his reputation as the most crucial figure inspiring the social activism and New Left politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The largely unpublished work collected in this volume makes clear the continuing relevance of Marcuse's thought to contemporary issues. The texts published here, dealing with concerns during the period 1942-1951, exhibit penetrating critiques of technology and analyses of the ways that modern technology produces novel forms of society and culture with new modes of social control. The material collected in Technology, War and Facism provides exemplary attempts to link theory with practice, to develop ideas that can be used to grasp and transform existing social reality.
Technology, War and Fascism is the first of six volumes of Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers to be edited by Douglas Kellner. Each volume is a collection of previously un-published or uncollected essays, unfinished manuscripts and letters by one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

Genres: Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Nonfiction, Technology

296 pages, Hardcover

First published March 12, 1998

About the author

German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left", his best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension. Marcuse was a major intellectual influence on the New Left and student movements of the 1960s.

Reviews

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a paradigm shifting book in that the formerly unpublished works that this book presents completely change the existing perception of the Frankfurt School's intellectual and power dynamics. I thought that the introduction was very clear and structured; and it presented the objective of the book and the structure of Marcuse's essays in a scholarly, yet lucid, fashion.

[roy · Rating 4 out of 5]

i return frequently to his idea of technics & technology, as well as his analysis with franz neumann of nazism.

[Melanie Randle · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is no personal escape from the apparatus which has mechanized and standarized the world (Marcuse, 1941: 46).