Herbert Marcuse. Eros & Civilization. Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi n.107, 2001
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Herbert Marcuse.
Eros & Civilization.
Einaudi, 2001.
Little Einaudi Library, PBE 107
Eros and Civilization, one of Marcuse's most original books, develops the premises of Freud's social philosophy, according to which civilization and happiness are incompatible for a profound reason: progress is based on the repression of instincts, that is, it lives on the renunciation of happiness, on the submission of Eros. Starting from Freud's premises, and taking into account Marxist experience, Marcuse asks himself whether it is not permissible to propose to man the possibility of a non-repressive society, in which the deceptive well-being of consumption is followed by the happiness of rediscovered Eros. This edition is preceded by a "political preface by the author.
Summary:
Introduction by Giovanni Jervis
Political Preface 1966. Preface to the first edition. - Introduction. Part One: Under the Domination of the Reality Principle. 1. The Hidden Tendency of Psychoanalysis. The Origin of the Repressed Individual (Ontogenesis). . The Origins of Repressive Civilization (Phylogenesis). v. The Dialectic of Civilization. v. Philosophical Interlude. Part Two: Beyond the Reality Principle. VI The Historical Limits of the Constituted Reality Principle. VII. Fantasy and Utopia, vili. VIII The Images of Orpheus and Narcissus. IX. The Aesthetic Dimension. x. The Transformation of Sexuality into Eros. XI. Eros and Thanatos. Epilogue: Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism.
Herbert Marcuse, born in Berlin in 1898, died in the United States in 1979. An exponent of the Frankfurt School, a collaborator of Horkheimer, he had taught at the University of San Diego, California. Among his works, Einaudi published in 1967 One-Dimensional Man; in 1969 An Essay on Liberation and Culture and Society; in 1970 Authority and the Family and in 1975 Marxism and Revolution. Studies 1929-1932. Furthermore, essays by Marcuse are published in Critique of Tolerance (written with R. P. Wolff and B. Moore, 1968) and in Dialectics of Liberation, edited by David Cooper (1969).
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