World events serve as a stage of constant search for how best to construct and maintain society, which is an underlying theme of some decades ago found in the works of Herbert Marcuse, 1898–1979, ...

For scholars, the discovery of a long-forgotten manuscript is the academic equivalent of hitting the jackpot. Such a find can ignite years of discussion and renewed interest in the author and the work ...

Jack Jacobs is a professor of political science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of On Socialists and 'the Jewish Question' after Marx (1992) ...

Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers of the 1960s, a counterculture guru to students who spray-painted his words across the United States and Europe. Now, amid a revival of interest ...

Herbert Marcuse arrived at Brandeis in 1954 with almost no scholarly reputation. He'd never held a full-time teaching post, hadn't published a book since 1941, and had spent much of his professional ...

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Select writings of philosopher and social critic Herbert Marcuse are being released in a book edited by two of his former graduate students from UCSD, Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss. Feenberg will ...

Herbert Marcuse was the single most famous person who ever taught at [University of California San Diego], and there was no living connection to him, no evidence of Marcuse having been there," says ...

The Black Lives Matter movement involved tens of millions of people going into the streets at great risk to their own safety. The mobilization of so many people in so many places ushered in a new era ...