marcuse

There, Marcuse talks about the sciences' funding by the military-industrial complex and the position of the humanities as a potentially regulating (e.g.

To deny Marcuse had no influence because he said he didn't is incredibly naive.

In one of his movies he calls Herbert Marcuse the leader of the student movement of the 60s and shows a short clip of him talking.

… mid-century critical theorists like Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse claimed the working class had been brainwashed into contentment.

The short clip is taken from an interview in which one finds, if watched integrally, Marcuse himself explaining why he is NOT an important figure in the movement).

You are completely right, Marcuse is very modest in portraying himself as an influential figure, and I didn't want to sound as if arguing that he had no influence.

While it’s mostly a laugh (a shock?) to read Guénon and Marcuse side by side, I think Vico is really misunderstood and under-appreciated in our present cultural moment and I think a lot of good could come from a revival of his thought.

Call it left-wing anti-liberalism: the idea, captured by Herbert Marcuse in his 1965 essay“Repressive Tolerance,” that social justice demands curbs on freedom of expression.

Some of the powerless people in that party truly do believe in human rights and Herbert Marcuse ("words can hurt") and try to make things better.

The idea of a (re-)integration of the two sides of Snow's dichotomy (alongside a critique of the concept of "The Two Cultures") can be found in Herbert Marcuse's essays[1].

Marcuse had a term for this "false consciousness"-when the structure of capitalism ends up making people work against their own interests without realizing it, and that is happening big time in software right now.

This is the kind of deskilling many philosophers in the strand of technological critique (Heidegger, Ellul, Marcuse, to name a few) have discussed.

But the fact remains that the roots of this behavior are in men like Foucault and Marcuse, who were squarely on the left.

I recommend reading about the concept of alienation in Marx and Marcuse.