An Essay on Liberation

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  • In
  • this
  • concise
  • and
  • startling
  • book,
  • the
  • author
  • of
  • One-Dimensional
  • Man
  • argues
  • that
  • the
  • time
  • for
  • utopian
  • speculation
  • has
  • come.
  • Marcuse
  • argues
  • that
  • the
  • traditional
  • conceptions
  • of
  • human
  • freedom
  • have
  • been
  • rendered
  • obsolete
  • by
  • the
  • development
  • of
  • advanced
  • industrial
  • society.
  • Social
  • theory
  • can
  • no
  • longer
  • content
  • itself
  • with
  • repeating
  • the
  • formula,
  • "from
  • each
  • according
  • to
  • his
  • ability,
  • to
  • each
  • according
  • to
  • his
  • needs,"
  • but
  • must
  • now
  • investigate
  • the
  • nature
  • of
  • human
  • needs
  • themselves.
  • Marcuse's
  • claim
  • is
  • that
  • even
  • if
  • production
  • were
  • controlled
  • and
  • determined
  • by
  • the
  • workers,
  • society
  • would
  • still
  • be
  • repressive—unless
  • the
  • workers
  • themselves
  • had
  • the
  • needs
  • and
  • aspirations
  • of
  • free
  • men.
  • Ranging
  • from
  • philosophical
  • anthropology
  • to
  • aesthetics
  • An
  • Essay
  • on
  • Liberation
  • attempts
  • to
  • outline—in
  • a
  • highly
  • speculative
  • and
  • tentative
  • fashion—the
  • new
  • possibilities
  • for
  • human
  • liberation.
  • TheEssay
  • contains
  • the
  • following
  • chapters:
  • A
  • Biological
  • Foundation
  • for
  • Socialism?,
  • The
  • New
  • Sensibility,
  • Subverting
  • Forces—in
  • Transition,
  • and Solidarity.
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