Description

"Towards a Critical Theory of Society" is the second volume of the Collected Papers of German philosopher Herbert Macuse. Edited by Douglas Kellner and published by Routledge in 2001.

Contents

Foreword (Peter Marcuse)

Introduction: Herbert Marcuse and the Vicissitudes of Critical Theory (Douglas Kellner)

I The Problem of Social Change in the Technological Society

II The Individual in the Great Society

III The Containment of Social Change in Industrial Society

IV Political Preface to Eros and Civilization, 1966

V Beyond One-Dimensional Man

VI Cultural Revolution

VII The Historical Fate of Bourgeois Democracy

VIII Watergate: When Law and Morality Stand in the Way

IX A Revolution in Values

X Letters (To Leo Löwenthal, Richard Popkin, T.W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Raya Dunayevskaya, Frederick Pollock)

XI Afterword: The Different Rhythms of Philosophy and Politics for Herbert Marcuse on his 100th Birthday (Jürgen Habermas)