Eros and Civilization

Introduction

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955; second edition, 1966) is a book by the German philosopher and social critic Herbert Marcuse.

Plot See also
  • Eros effect
  • Eros (Freud)
  • Freudo-Marxism
  • Libidinal Economy
References

Bibliography

Books

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  • Bernstein, Richard J. (1988). "Negativity: Theme and Variations". In Pippin, Robert; Feenberg, Andrew; Webel, Charles P. (eds.). Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia. London: Macmillan Education. ISBN 978-0-333-44101-5.
  • Bohman, James (2017). "Marcuse, Herbert". In Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-64379-6.
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  • Caplan, Pat (1987). "Introduction". In Caplan, Pat (ed.). The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. London: Tavistock Publications. ISBN 978-0-422-60880-0.
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  • Dufresne, Todd (2000). Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3885-9.
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  • Herzog, Dagmar (2017). Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-42087-8.
  • Hudson, Liam (1976). The Cult of the Fact. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01221-8.
  • Hyman, Edward (1988). "Eros and Freedom: The Critical Psychology of Herbert Marcuse". In Pippin, Robert; Feenberg, Andrew; Webel, Charles P. (eds.). Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia. London: Macmillan Education. ISBN 978-0-333-44101-5.
  • Kellner, Douglas (1984). Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-36830-4.
  • Kovel, Joel (1991). History and Spirit: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-2916-9.
  • Kovel, Joel (1981). The Age of Desire: Case Histories of a Radical Psychoanalyst. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-50818-4.
  • Lewes, Kenneth (1988). The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality. New York: New American Library. ISBN 978-0-452-01003-1.
  • MacIntyre, Alasdair (1970). Marcuse. London: Fontana.
  • Marcuse, Herbert (1974). Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1555-1.
  • Marwick, Arthur (1998). The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States c.1958-c.1974. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-210022-1.
  • Murphy, Timothy F. (1985). "Freud Reconsidered: Bisexuality, Homosexuality, and Moral Judgement". In DeCecco, John P.; Shively, Michael G. (eds.). Origins of Sexuality and Homosexuality. New York: Harrington Park Press. ISBN 978-0-918393-00-5.
  • Paglia, Camille (2018). Provocations: Collected Essays. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9781524746896.
  • Porter, Roy (1996). "Is Foucault Useful For Understanding Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sexuality?". In Keddie, Nikki R. (ed.). Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-8147-4655-1.
  • Posner, Richard (1992). Sex and Reason. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-80279-7.
  • Ricœur, Paul (1970). Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-02189-9.
  • Robinson, Paul (1990). The Freudian Left. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-9716-2.
  • Schwartz, Joel (1990). "Freud and the American Constitution". In Bloom, Allan (ed.). Confronting the Constitution: The Challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism, Pragmatism, Existentialism... Washington, D. C.: The AEI Press. ISBN 978-0-8447-3700-3.
  • Scruton, Roger (1994). Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation. London: Phoenix Books. ISBN 978-1-85799-100-0.
  • Seidler, Victor J. (1987). "Reason, desire, and male sexuality". In Caplan, Pat (ed.). The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. London: Tavistock Publications. ISBN 978-0-422-60880-0.
  • Sontag, Susan (1990). Against Interpretation and Other Essays. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-385-26708-3.
  • Weeks, Jeffrey (1993). Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-04503-2.

Journals

  • Alford, C. Fred (1987). "Eros and Civilization after thirty years". Theory & Society. 16 (6).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Alford, C. Fred (1993). "Reconciliation with Nature? The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and Melanie Klein". Theory, Culture & Society. 10 (2): 207–227. doi:10.1177/026327693010002011. S2CID 145412826.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Bertman, M. A. (1998). "Collected papers of Herbert Marcuse (Book Review)". Choice. 36 (4).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Beard, Michael (1998). "Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis (Book Review)". Edebiyat: Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures. 9 (1).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Bird-Pollan, Stefan (2013). "Critiques of Judgment". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1): 99–107. doi:10.5840/radphilrev201316112.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Casteel, P. D. (2017). "Marcuse & Administration". Marcuse & Administration -- Research Starters Sociology (April 1, 2017).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Celarent, Barbara (2010). "Eros and Civilization". American Journal of Sociology. 115 (6): 1964–1972. doi:10.1086/654745.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Cerullo, Margaret (1979). "Marcuse and Feminism". New German Critique. 18 (18): 21–23. doi:10.2307/487846. JSTOR 487846.
  • Cho, Daniel (2006). "Thanatos and Civilization: Lacan, Marcuse, and the Death Drive". Policy Futures in Education. 4 (1): 18–30. doi:10.2304/pfie.2006.4.1.18.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Chodorow, Nancy Julia (1985). "Beyond Drive Theory: Object Relations and the Limits of Radical Individualism". Theory & Society. 14 (3): 271–319. doi:10.1007/BF00161280. S2CID 140431722.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Duvenage, Pieter (2017). "Filosofie as aktualiteitsinterpretasie. Marinus Schoeman as denker". Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe. 57 (1): 7–21. doi:10.17159/2224-7912/2017/v57n1a2.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Edel, Abraham (1956). "Instead of Repression". The Nation. 183 (1).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Escoffier, Jeffrey (2015). "Marcuse, Herbert (1898-1979)". GLBTQ Social Sciences.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Evans, Sara M. (2009). "Sons, Daughters, and Patriarchy: Gender and the 1968 Generation". The American Historical Review. 114 (2): 331–347. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.2.331.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Farr, Arnold L.; Kellner, Douglas; Lamas, Andrew T.; Reitz, Charles (2013). "Herbert Marcuse's Critical Refusals". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Fernandes, Franco; Augusto, Sérgio (2016). "Sobre o uso do conceito de sublimação e suas derivações, a partir da perspectiva estética marcuseana". DoisPontos. 13 (3). doi:10.5380/dp.v13i3.47239.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Fingarette, Herbert (1957). "Eros and Utopia". The Review of Metaphysics. 10 (4).
  • Grotjahn, Martin (1956). "Eros and Civilization. A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud: By Herbert Marcuse. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955. 277 pp". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 25: 429–431.
  • Hammer, Espen (2008). "Marcuse's critical theory of modernity". Philosophy & Social Criticism. 34 (9): 1071–1093. doi:10.1177/0191453708098538. S2CID 143566595.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Hite, Molly (2010). ""Fun Actually Was Becoming Quite Subversive": Herbert Marcuse, the Yippies, and the Value System of Gravity's Rainbow". Contemporary Literature. 51 (4): 677–702. doi:10.1353/cli.2011.0004.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Holland, Nancy J. (2011). "Looking Backwards: A Feminist Revisits Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization". Hypatia. 26 (1): 65–78. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01127.x. S2CID 143753926.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Howell, R. J. (1990). "Melanie Klein and critical social theory (Book Review)". Choice. 27.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Jay, Martin (1982). "Anamnestic totalization: Reflections on Marcuse's theory of remembrance". Theory & Society. 11 (1). doi:10.1007/bf00173107. S2CID 146846698.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Jones, Richard M. (1958). "The Return of the Un-Repressed". American Imago. 15 (2): 175–180.
  • Kimball, Roger (1997). "The marriage of Marx & Freud". The New Criterion. 16 (4).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Kluckhohn, Clyde (1955). "A Critique on Freud". The New York Times Book Review: 30.
  • Marcuse, Herbert (2013). "From Marx to Freud to Marx". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1): 25–30. doi:10.5840/radphilrev20131615.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Mattick, Paul (1956). "Marx and Freud". Western Socialist. March/April 1956.
  • Moldenhauer, Jearld (1972). "Marcuse and the Gay Revolution". The Body Politic (6).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Moore, Duston (2007). "Whitehead and Marcuse". Journal of Classical Sociology. 17 (1): 83–108. doi:10.1177/1468795X07073953. S2CID 143850620.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Nicholas, Jeffrey L. (2017). "Refusing Polemics: Retrieving Marcuse for Maclntyrean Praxis". Radical Philosophy Review. 20 (2): 185–213. doi:10.5840/radphilrev201742576.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Nicholsen, Shierry Weber (2006). "The Accumulated Guilt of Humankind: On the Aesthetic in a Damaged World". Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie (22/23).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Nyberg, Paul (1956). "A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud". Harvard Educational Review. 26 (1).
  • Privitello, Lucio Angelo (2013). "Teaching Marcuse". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1): 109–122. doi:10.5840/radphilrev201316113.
  • Rayman, Joshua (2005). "Marcuse's Metaphysics: The Turn from Heidegger to Freud". Telos (131).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Shearmur, Jeremy (1983). "Social Amnesia (Book Review)". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 13 (1).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Sica, Alan (2011). "The Case of Barbara Celarent, Champion Book Reviewer". Contemporary Sociology. 40 (4): 385–387. doi:10.1177/0094306111412511.
  • Stakemeier, Kerstin (2006). "Eros im Fordismus zur Ästhetisierung der Politik in den Fünfziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts". Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie (22/23).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Stirk, Peter M. R. (1999). "Eros and civilization revisited". History of the Human Sciences. 12 (1): 73–90. doi:10.1177/09526959922120162. S2CID 144184630.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Tuttle, H. N. (1988). "Hegel's ontology and the theory of historicity (Book Review)". Choice. 25.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Walsh, Sean Noah (2008). "The subversion of Eros: Dialectic, revolt, and murder in the polity of the soul". Crime, Media, Culture. 4 (2): 221–236. doi:10.1177/1741659008092329. S2CID 145245919.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Weineck, Silke-Maria (2000). "Sex and history, or Is there an erotic utopia in Dantons Tod?". The German Quarterly. 73 (4): 351–365. doi:10.2307/3072756. JSTOR 3072756.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Whitfield, Stephen J. (2014). "Refusing Marcuse". Dissent. 61 (4): 102–107. doi:10.1353/dss.2014.0075. S2CID 143795306.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Wolff, Kurt H. (1956). "Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud". American Journal of Sociology. 62 (3): 342–343. doi:10.1086/222021.
  • Young, Robert M. (1969). "The Naked Marx". New Statesman. 78 (November 7, 1969).
  • "Marcuse's Conception of Eros". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1). 2013.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
External links
  • Table of contents, with links to full texts of preface, 1966 preface, introduction, chapter 1, epilog, and index (at marcuse.org)
  • Citations of numerous reviews in 6 languages, with links to on-line texts
  • Review by Paul Mattick
  • Review by Robert M. Young

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