Herbert Marcuse - Philosophical Works (22 books)

HERBERT MARCUSE (1898-1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Active in the United States after 1934, his intellectual concerns were the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and modern technology.

Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US Government Service, which helped form the basis of his book SOVIET MARXISM (1958). His scholarship inspired many radical intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s, both in the U.S. and internationally, and he became known as the preeminent theorist of the New Left. Among his best known works are REASON AND REVOLUTION (1940), a dialectical study of Hegel and Marx; EROS AND CIVILIZATION (1955), an attempt to synthesize the theories of Marx and Freud; and ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN (1964), documenting the rise of new forms of social repression in both the West and the Soviet Union.


The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise noted:

* THE AESTHETIC DIMENSION: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Beacon, 1978). Translated and revised by Herbert Marcuse and Erica Sherover. -- PDF + ePUB

* COLLECTED PAPERS, Vol. 1: Technology, War & Fascism (Routledge, 1998). Edited by Douglas Kellner.

* COLLECTED PAPERS, Vol. 2: Towards a Critical Theory of Society (Routledge, 2001). Edited by Douglas Kellner.

* COLLECTED PAPERS, Vol. 3: The New Left & the 1960s (Routledge, 2005). Edited by Douglas Kellner.

* COLLECTED PAPERS, Vol. 4: Art and Liberation (Routledge, 2007). Edited by Douglas Kellner.

* COLLECTED PAPERS, Vol. 5: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation (Routledge, 2011). Edited by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce.

* COLLECTED PAPERS, Vol. 6: Marxism, Revolution and Utopia (Routledge, 2014). Edited by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce.

* COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND REVOLT (Beacon, 1972). -- PDF + ePUB

* CRITIQUE OF PURE TOLERANCE [with Robert P. Woolf and Barrington Moore Jr.] (Beacon, 1965).

* AN ESSAY ON LIBERATION (Beacon, 1969). -- PDF + ePUB

* EROS AND CIVILIZATION: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Routledge, 1998). -- ePUB

* THE ESSENTIAL MARCUSE (Beacon, 2007). Edited by Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss. -- ePUB

* FIVE LECTURES: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Utopia (Beacon, 1970). Translated by Jeremy Shapiro and Shierry Weber.

* HEGEL'S ONTOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF HISTORICITY (MIT, 1987). Translated by Seyla Benhabib.

* HEIDEGGERIAN MARXISM (Nebraska, 2005). Edited by Richard Wolin and John Abromeit.

* NEGATIONS: Essays in Critical Theory (MayFly, 2009).

* ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge, 2002). Second edition, with an Introduction by Douglas Kellner. -- PDF + ePUB

* REASON AND REVOLUTION: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (Routledge, 1955). Second Edition. -- PDF + ePUB

* REVOLUTION OR REFORM?: A Confrontation [with Sir Karl Popper] (Precedent, 1985). Edited by A. T. Ferguson.

* SECRET REPORTS ON NAZI GERMANY: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort (Princeton, 2013). Edited by Raffaele Laudani. Reports by Herbert Marcuse, Franz Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer.

* SOVIET MARXISM: A Critical Analysis (Columbia, 1958).

* STUDIES IN CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY (Beacon, 1973). Translated by Joris de Bres.