Full name: Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

Author: Herbert Marcuse Year: 1955 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Psychology, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780807015551

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. Similar books: Counterrevolution and Revolt by Herbert Marcuse The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung The Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernest Becker True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler Irrational Man by William Barrett Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse Brainstorms by Daniel C. Dennett The Meaning of Truth by William James The Authenticity Hoax by Andrew Potter The Age of Absurdity by Michael Foley The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek Introducing Lacan by Darian Leader Missing Out by Adam Phillips