An Essay on Liberation is a 1969 book by the Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse.
Author | Herbert Marcuse |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Industrial society |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Publication date | 1969 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 91 |
ISBN | 0-8070-0595-9 |
Summary edit
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Marcuse argues that advanced industrial society has rendered the traditional conception of human freedom obsolete, and outlines new possibilities for contemporary human liberation.[1]
Publication history edit
An Essay on Liberation was first published by Beacon Press in 1969.[2]
Reception edit
The author Brian Easlea writes that Marcuse, having in the past been attacked by Marxists for his "quite unambiguous indictment of science and perhaps feeling that he had directed too much attention away from the rulers of advanced industrial society", apparently "reversed direction" in An Essay on Liberation by endorsing science and technology as "great vehicles of liberation".[3]
References edit
- ^ Marcuse 1969, pp. –vii–x, 3–91.
- ^ Marcuse 1969, p. iv.
- ^ Easlea 1981, p. 25.
Bibliography edit
- Books
- Easlea, Brian (1981). Science and Sexual Oppression: Patriarchy's Confrontation with Woman and Nature. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0 297 77894 3.
- Marcuse, Herbert (1969). An Essay on Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-0595-9.