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The Concept of Repression in The Social and Educational Thought of Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse
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"The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts
… the metaphor of "space." Chapter One uses Herbert Marcuse's work to analyze the European space of possibility found in bourgeois culture. The first part of the chapter presents a general overview of Marcuse's thought. Here, I examine: Marcuse's "humanistic" reading of Marx, as found in "The …
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Technological ambiguity and the uneasy conscience: bringing Reinhold Niebuhr’s theology into dialogue with the philosophy of Lewis Mumford and Herbert Marcuse towards a Christian conception of responsibility in the technical age
… are at least two thinkers, Lewis Mumford and Herbert Marcuse, who frame their understanding of the question of technological neutrality in a way that diminishes the pitfalls of either position. While Mumford holds that technology is neutral, he is still attentively critical of the …
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Critical Pragmatism: Peirce and Marcuse on the Socio-Political Influences on Human Development in Advanced Industrial Societies
… Charles Peirce of the pragmatists and Herbert Marcuse of the critical theorists. I demonstrate the affinities between the two philosophers with a focus on their contributions to socio-political thought in advanced industrial societies. After addressing the antagonisms between the two …
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Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism
… a favored movement of critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. I aim to analyze each of these movements in a dialectical manner, in such a way that respects the rich history of each movement and gives due consideration to the system in which they developed.</p>
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Cultivating Agricultural Resistance: Alternative Farming as Slow Modernity
… in the work of critical theorists, especially Herbert Marcuse, because the Frankfurt School\'s criticism of instrumental rationality and understanding of domination functions to elucidate the societal conditions that allow for agricultural (over)production to be swept up in problematic methods …
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Moral Code: The Design and Social Values of the Internet
… basis, influenced by the thought of Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, and Andrew Feenberg, supports a social constructivist approach that includes theorization of the oppressive embodiment of hegemonic and exclusive interests in technology while rejecting the technological determinisms influenced by …
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Dan Graham's Video-Installations of the 1970s
… I explore how the artist's understanding of Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and R.D. Laing informed his post-Minimalist work and how concepts gleaned from these sources are manifest in his video-installations. Also undertaken are discussions of the artist's interest in aestheticized play, …
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Martin Heidegger's Critiques of Metaphysics
… approach. The notable thinkers are Herbert Marcuse, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Gayatri Spivak, and Jacques Lacan. The work of these thinkers, the dissertation concludes, lead to the unthought terrain of peripheral thinking, a corporeal …
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A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Literature of Technology: Prometheus Bound, Frankenstein and Battlestar Galactica
… Freudian-Marxist and aesthetic sensibilities of Herbert Marcuse, and the metabletic analysis of psychologist Robert Romanyshyn. By bringing the thinking of these three into the analysis, the work claims a breadth that exceeds a simple literary analysis.</p><p> Each of the literary sources of this …
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
… via his engagement with Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse to rethink the nature of guilt, and the assumption that moral responsibility and guilt are intrinsically intertwined. By tracing Adorno’s historically shaped position on guilt and its self-conscious relation to Heidegger, employing …
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The Economic Theories of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, 1923-1945
The Frankfurt Institute for Social Research was established in 1923 originally as a German centre for Marxist economic research. Its odyssey traversed tumultuous historical periods, witnessing the downfall of the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazi regime, and beyond. The Frankfurt Institute …