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Feeling alienated? In this episode, we are here for you. We dig into three periods of Herbert Marcuse’s thought. Marcuse was Martin Heidegger’s student in the 1920s, a member of the Frankfurt School in the 1930s, the philosopher of the New Left in the 1960s, and stays haunting the petit bourgeois in the 2020s. We pay our respects and get to the bottom of his influence on critical theory, social movements, and the culture.

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References:

Herbert Marcuse, Heideggerian Marxism, edited by Richard Wolin and John Abromeit (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005).

Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).

Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964).

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

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Jeffrey Anthony

I enjoyed this episode. To Lillian’s point in the middle of the podcast about how to make an argument for one side or the other that can be agreed upon as being grounded in some notion of truth rather than ‘I like this way better because that is how I feel,’ I’ve been diving into the works of the American Pragmatists to try and find an answer to this very dilemma. I think Richard Rorty (who is considered a neo-pragmatist, some of whom in contemporary pragmatism use pejoratively, which I do not agree with their framing) in his book Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity articulates a theory of action founded upon American Pragmatism, using specifically William’s James and John Dewey’s theory of truth, to get us to a point where we can articulate which ‘answer’ to Lillian’s question is the ‘right’ or ‘better’ path forward than the other. An episode exploring that book would be interesting!

Michael Badu

I was gonna unsubscribe but then Lillian said that you guys can’t do this without me so…I guess I’ll keep paying. Feels good to be important.

Philip M

Been reading One Dimensional Man, haven't read any other Marcuse yet so this is intriguing. Hope you all are well.