The Philosopher
Herbert Marcuse
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- German-American
- Branchs:
- Philosophy, Sociology, political theory, critical theory
- Period:
- 20th-century philosophy
The synopsis
The works
Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity
Reason and Revolution
Eros and Civilization
Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis
One-Dimensional Man
A Critique of Pure Tolerance
An Essay on Liberation
Counterrevolution and Revolt
The Aesthetic Dimension
The quotes
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
That which is cannot be true.
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.