The Critical spirit

essays in honor of Herbert Marcuse.

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The Critical spirit

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Table of Contents

Introduction: What is the critical spirit?
Utopianism, ancient and modern, by M.I. Finley.
Primitive society in its many dimensions, by S. Diamond.
Manicheanism in the Enlightenment, by R.H. Popkin.
Schopenhauer today, by M. Horkheimer.
Beginning in Hegel and today, by K.H. Wolff.
The social history of ideas: Ernst Cassirer and after, by P. Gay.
Policies of violence, from Montesquieu to the Terrorist, by E.V. Walter.
Thirty-nine articles: toward a theory of social theory, by J.R. Seeley.
History as private enterprise, by H. Zinn.
From Socrates to Plato, by H. Meyerhoff.
Rational society and irrational art, by H. Read.
The quest for the Grail; Wagner and Morris, by C.E. Schorske.
Valéry; Monsieur Teste, by L. Goldmann.
History and existentialism in Sartre, by L. Krieger.
German popular biographies; culture's bargain counter, by L. Lowenthal.
The Rechtsstaat as magic wall, by O. Kirchheimer.
Revolution from above: some notes on the decision to collectivize Soviet agriculture, by E.H. Carr.
Winston Churchill, power politician and counter revolutionary, by A.J. Mayer.
Brahmins and business, 1870-1914; a hypothesis on the social basis of success in American history, by G. Kolko.
On the limits of professional thought, by M.R. Stein.
The limits of integration, by P. Mattick.
The society nobody wants; a look beyond Marxism and liberalism.
Marcuse as teacher, by W. Leiss, J.D. Ober and E. Sherover.
Marcuse bibliography, by W. Leiss, J.D. Ober and E. Sherover (p. 427-433).

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Dewey Decimal Class
108
Library of Congress
B29 .C7

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xi, 436 p.
Number of pages
436

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OL5546374M
Internet Archive
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67024890
OCLC/WorldCat
1850449
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400871

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