Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry

Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud Herbert Marcuse
Publisher: Beacon Press

Eros and Civilization is subtitled, "A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud," and we studied it in my "Utopia" seminar. I'm packing up a bunch of my books to take upstate, and I keep getting distracted from packing by actual books. Then the revisions of psychoanalysis began to gain momentum. The book introduced many English speaking readers to the Hegelian-Marxian tradition of dialectical thinking and social analysis. (1984), “Possessions and the Extended Self”, Journal of Consumer Research, 11, 139-168. The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased publication."—Clyde Kluckhohn, The New York Times. [34] Jochen Schulte-Sasse's introduction to Burger's Theory of the Avant-Garde, op.cit., pp xli-xliii. Published in 1962, my freshman year in college, Marcuse's book was "big" on campus. The psychoanalytic conception of man, with its belief in the basic unchangeability of human nature, appeared as “reactionary;” Freudian theory seemed to imply that the humanitarian ideals of socialism were humanly unattainable. [33] Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, The Beacon Press, 1955. With a New Preface by the Author, published by Beacon Press, Boston, 1966. Source: Eros and Civilization, A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud Herbert Marcuse, written 1955. Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Boston: Beacon, 1966),.