Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse

[Joel Katz]

marcuse's all right ... for amateurs.  real hegelian-marxists read kojeve 
and use stainless-steel toothpicks.



>From: Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
>Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:42:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
>Warning: Objects in this mirror ain't pretty.
>I see I am a victim.
>I want.. my M..T..V.
>
>http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/epilogue.htm
>  EPILOGUE. Critique of Neo-Freudian Revisionism
>
>  As a result, productiveness, love,
>  responsibility become "values" only in so far as
>  they contain manageable resignation and are practiced within
>  the framework of socially useful activities (in other words,
>  after repressive sublimation); and then they involve the
>  effective denial of free productiveness and responsibility
>  -- the renunciation of happiness.
>
>  The style suggests the Power of Positive Thinking to which
>  the revisionist critique succumbs. It is not the values that
>  are spurious, but the context in which they are defined and
>  proclaimed: "inner strength" has the connotation
>  of that unconditional freedom which can be practiced even in
>  chains and which Fromm himself once denounced in his
>  analysis of the Reformation.
>
>  Freud recognized the work
>  of repression in the highest values of Western civilization
>  -- which presuppose and perpetuate unfreedom and
>  suffering. The Neo-Freudian schools promote the very same
>  values as cure against unfreedom and suffering as the
>  triumph over repression.
>
>
>http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/ch01.htm
>  CHAPTER ONE. The Hidden Trend in Psychoanalysis
>
>
>http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/preface.htm
>  Political Preface 1966
>
>  Today, this union of freedom and servitude has become
>  "natural" and a vehicle of progress.
>
>  No philosophy, no theory can undo the democratic
>  introjection of the masters into their subjects.
>
>  Liberation of the instinctual needs for --
>  peace and quiet, of the "asocial" autonomous
>  Eros presupposes liberation from repressive affluence:
>  a reversal in the direction of progress.
>
>  It was the thesis of Eros and Civilization, more fully
>  developed in my One-Dimensional Man, that man could avoid
>  the fate of a Welfare-Through-Warfare State only by
>  achieving a new starting point where he could reconstruct
>  the productive apparatus without that "inner-worldly
>  asceticism" which provided the mental basis for
>  domination and exploration.
>
>http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/one-dimensional-man/index.htm
>  One Dimensional Man, by Herbert Marcuse
>
>Yours truly,
>Glenn Scheper
>http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
>glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
>Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
>

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