Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse - ISBN: 9780807018811
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Freud meets utopia: Unchain instincts, reimagine civilization, and ignite revolution.

Eros and Civilization

A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud

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  • Hardcover

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    8 April 2025

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Summary

A dazzling collectible edition of one of the most groundbreaking thinkers of the 20th century’s incisive philosophical analysis of western civilization

“Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic and an activist, a scholar and a revolutionary.” - Angela Davis

Originally published in 1955, Herbert Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization has been deemed by the New York Times “the most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himse…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780807018811
ISBN-10:0807018813
Author:Herbert Marcuse
Publisher:Beacon Press
Imprint:Beacon Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:8 April 2025
Weight:548g
Dimensions:31mm x 239mm x 163mm
Series:Beacon Classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma… . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased publication.” —Clyde Kluckhohn, The New York Times

“An avowedly political project, seeking new and freer possibilities within the framework of psychoanalysis.” —The Collector

“Only in a philosophy that teaches (as Marcuse’s does) that we must refuse to fear death is true liberation to be found.” —Florida Philosophical Review

“Marcuse presented a radical gateway for the pursuit of happiness and the enhancement of freedom.” —Dissent Magazine

About The Author

Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.

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