Full name: Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

Author: Herbert Marcuse Year: 1940 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Politics, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781573927185 157392718X

It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory. Today, the appreciation of Marcuse's work has remained high, more relevant now than ever before. In the rapidly changing context of post-Cold War political realities, there is no better guide than Marcuse to where we have been and to what we might expect. As he well understood, turbulent and spectacular political events always ran within channels earlier set by political theory; and he equally understood that it was Hegel's often unappreciated and misunderstood theory which actually set a fundamental path of modern political life. It is a fortunate combination to have a scholar of Marcuse's brilliance and lucid honesty addressing the sources and consequences of Hegel's social theory. Similar books: One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno The Cambridge Companion to Hegel by Frederick C. Beiser From Hegel to Nietzsche by Karl Lowith Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Zizek Hegel by Peter Singer Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jurgen Habermas The Jargon of Authenticity by Theodor W. Adorno Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey Non-Violent Resistance by Mahatma Gandhi Democratic Enlightenment by Jonathan I. Israel The Treason of the Intellectuals by Julien Benda The Opium of the Intellectuals by Raymond Aron Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci