Cultural Reader

Few twentieth-century thinkers absorbed and transformed the legacy of the Frankfurt School as profoundly as Fredric Jameson . While his nam...

“Technology, as a mode of production, as the totality of instruments, devices, and contrivances which characterize the machine age, is at th...

“The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipm...

Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) was a philosopher who became, almost accidentally, a revolutionary celebrity. A member of the Frankfurt School ...

Herbert Marcuse , a philosopher trained in both Hegelian dialectics and Freudian psychoanalysis, emerged in the 1960s as the Frankfurt Schoo...

The Frankfurt School was never a rigid institution nor a fixed doctrine; it was a constellation of personalities, each bringing distinctive ...

In "Repressive Tolerance" ,  Herbert Marcuse  critiques the prevailing understanding and practice of tolerance in modern, advanced...

In his 1969 article "An Essay on Liberation",  Frankfurt School  philosopher  Herbert Marcuse  deals with the themes of societal c...

The Frankfurt School, a group of scholars associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, emerged in the early 20th...

Herbert Marcuse 's philosophy aimed to change society by critiquing and challenging the status quo. Marcuse was a student of the famous ...

Herbert Marcuse 's "The Aesthetic Dimension" is a philosophical treatise in which Marcuse explores the role of art and aesthet...

The essay Eros and Civilization by  Herbert Marcuse  connects the tradition of critical theory and Marxist social criticism with the statem...

Repressive Tolerance is a term coined by  Herbert Marcuse  in a 1965 essay by the same title. Marcuse believed that the media wrongly pays a...

In his book The One Dimensional Man Herbert Marcuse argues that the "advanced industrial society" creates false needs that allow...

In his 1964 " One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society" Neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marc...