Old Announcements
from the
Official Herbert Marcuse Homepage

page maintained by Harold Marcuse
(Harold Marcuse homepage)

part of the Official Herbert Marcuse website,
created Jan. 2, 2005; updated 8/22/07

see also the Visitors Statistics Page

2001 Announcements (back to top)

• On March 27, 2001 I (Harold Marcuse, Herbert's grandson) turned a one-page biography that I had on my UC Santa Barbara faculty website into a comprehensive web page with annotated links on the marcuse.org server maintained by my brother Andrew. The thumbnail at right shows what that first homepage looked like.
  • Marcuse.org homepages: June 2000, March 2001, June 2001
  • Herbert Marcuse homepages: March-August 2001,

  The short narrative biography on the original herbert.htm page was followed by an annotated list of links. As time went on, site visitors got in touch with me, and I began adding material to the site myself. The first announcement follows below.

2002 Announcements (back to top)

• March 4, 2002: new addition to the biography section: Michael G. Horowitz, "Portrait of the Marxist as an Old Trouper," a "personality profile" of Herbert written by a Brandeis undergraduate (1963-67), after Herbert's April 1969 appearance at SUNY Old Westbury. It was published in Sept. 1970 in Playboy  magazine. [this was the first "announcement" I added to that page, which soon began to grow. See images at right.]

• March 17, 2002: The 69 minute film Herbert's Hippopotamus is now available as streaming media on Doug Kellner's Illuminations website. This is AMAZING footage from the late 60s and early 70s, including then-and-now interviews of UCSD's chancellor William McGill, Angela Davis, and Herbert (with some real gem remarks, for instance by a May 1968 KCET interviewer).

• June 3, 2002: From January 29, 2002 to March 4, 2002 visitors were asked to comment on appropriate resting places for Herbert Marcuse's recently rediscovered ashes (click on view guestbook to see those comments). We have chosen the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery in Berlin where Hegel's and Brecht's graves are [semi-official web site, best site, some photos, tourguide].
  We would be interested in our readers' views on the type of grave marker you would find appropriate, and on possible quotations by Herbert that could serve as an epitaph (please enter them into the guestbook at the bottom of this page).

• Aug. 4, 2002: On July 19, 2003, which would have been Herbert's 105th birthday, we are planning a small ceremony to inter Herbert's ashes in Berlin. If you would like to contribute in some way, please contact Harold Marcuse at hmarcuse@yahoo.com. (letters to the cemetery and the Berlin Senate, added 12/18/02)

• Oct. 21, 2002: New addition to site: a page collecting information about Herbert's wives Sophie Wertheim, Inge Neumann, Erica Sherover. (updated 12/18/02, including letter from Ricky; update 4/7/03: 1937 photo)

• Oct. 23, 2002/April 26: New section added: "Books about Herbert Marcuse." This is just beginning, based on suggestions from readers and authors. Someday I'll try to do it systematically. (updated 1/6/03). An "Archive of Texts" has been added as well. [Jan. 2005: separate page]

• Nov. 24, 2002: Material from Herbert's 1922 dissertation has been added: title page and CV.

• Dec. 18, 2002: Added after a query by the daughter of Hans Meyerhoff, an old friend of Herbert's: The story of the discovery of Herbert's ashes, and some letters we wrote to the cemetery and City of Berlin about the gravesite. [after burial in July 2003: Burial Articles & Burial Photos pages]

2003 Announcements (back to top)

• Feb. 17, 2003: Update to the Aug. 4, 2002 entry, below: The interment of Herbert's ashes will take place on July 18, 2003.

• March 8, 2003/Apr. 7: review(s) of vol. III of Herbert's papers (1956-1971) added, below.

• April 26, 2003: Neues Deutschland interview (in English with German translation) with Herbert's son Peter about how Herbert influenced his son. [published article in ND (in German)]

• June 1, 2003: the interment ceremony for Herbert's ashes will take place on July 18. (See the Dec. 18, 2002 announcement, below.)

• Prior to the burial of Herbert's ashes in Berlin, some family members were taken on a tour of the Reichstag by Member of Parliament Petra Pau (PDS), while the rest attended a conference at the Free University. [from Petra Pau's website- July 2003 news; article "Begegnung mit Angela" (scroll down)

  July 4, 2003: Prior to the burial there will be a conference in the Audimax of the FU Berlin, on Thursday, July 17, 2003, 14h-19h. The public is invited. There will be presentations and discussions by me (Harold Marcuse), Angela Davis, Axel Honneth, Hartmut Häußermann, Ulf Kadritzke, Wolfgang Lefévre, Eberhard Lämmert, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Frieder Otto Wolf and Detlef Claussen. Click on the image at left for a large version of the poster. [note July 29, 2003: there are several articles and a long interview in ND with Angela Davis on the Articles about Herbert's Ashes page][note Dec. 21, 2003: also announced in Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (link), and in the FU-Nachrichten (link)]. July 2004: see this summary of the conference by Michael Funken. [May 2005: conference page in development]
  
• July 7, 2003: I've updated the Herbert's Ashes Story page, to help satisfy the curiosity of some of the journalists who have been calling, and replaced the poster at left with a newer version with the correct times. German TV An independent film crew (with funding from a cultural foundation?) is making a documentary film with footage of the funeral homes, from Peter's cellar study in Waterbury, the ashes boarding the plane in NYC, etc, etc. And there'll be lots of newspaper stories. Come back in early August to see if I've been able to upload some! [Articles Page]
  
• July 30, 2003: Perusing the guestbook, I decided to start Haters and Quotations pages. This web page/site has clearly outgrown its single-page design, so I plan on reorganizing it soon with a navigation bar leading to several separate pages. Here's a draft (now links just jump around this page):

  Current news old news

  Biography burial 2003 comprehensive websites links to other biographies

  Herbert's Books main works, with reviews, commentary, and links best bibliography

  Books about Herbert (i.e. secondary literature)

  Archive of texts and documents and Multimedia archive photographs, sound files, video

  Legacy Herbert's students, Frankfurt school

  Links annotated guide to other web sites and individual pages



• Aug. 3, 2003: An (illustrated) reflection on the personal, political and symbolic meanings of the burial of Herbert's ashes, by his son Peter (link).
  
• Aug. 5, 2003: Table of contents and biographical essay by Peter Marcuse added from a forthcoming publication: Herbert Marcuse: A Critical Reader (link to toc; Peter's essay; in books about, below).
  
• Aug. 25, 2003: Questia.com ("the world's largest on-line library") has quite a few full-text secondary works about Herbert's philosophy, and his book The Aesthetic Dimension: link. The catch is that you have to subscribe to the service, which costs $20/month. I may explore this further and add info when I have time.
  
• Sept. 8, 2003: Link to wonderful biographical article by Bettina Aptheker about Erica Shereover-Marcuse, at UnlearningRacism.org, added to the SophieIngeErica page.
  
• Dec. 17, 2003: On Sat., Feb. 7, 2004 the Thomas Morus Academy Bensberg in Bergisch Gladbach will hold an all-day conference about Herbert Marcuse, titled "Philosophie der Befreiung. Herbert Marcuse zum 25. Todestag." The program is now available as a pdf (link) and jpg (link); more information will be published on the academy's website (link).
  
• Dec. 22, 2003: Students at the (formerly East German) Humboldt University are on strike. It appears that many of them want an "open university" without taking attendance and grading, while some leftist critics want to hold protest seminars about more traditional leftist issues: the economy of the future, and US imperialism. Trying to reform the world before establishing a adequate basis at home was one of the problems that plagued the "1968" student movement. The first item on the agenda is what to name this "open university". One suggestion is "Herbert Marcuse University"--but most students in the room don't know who he was, never mind what he wrote about and stood for. The author recommends an exchange of copies of One Dimensional Man for Christmas. (link to ND article [in German]; archive copy)

2004 Announcements (back to top)

• April 10, 2004: added: link to page of famous portraits by Isolde Ohlbaum.
  
  I've also just scanned the text of Herbert's July 1967 presentation "Liberation from the Affluent Society" (full text of "Liberation from the Affluent Society").

• April 28, 2004: Since there is interest in having a one-volume selection of Herbert's most important writings published, I combed the web to see what readings of his are being assigned in college courses. This gives rise to a new section: "What's read in courses," below.

• April 29, 2004: added: response by some of Herbert's students to a 1964 New York Review of Books review of One Dimensional Man added (archive page on this site; NYRB page) [thanks to former student William Leiss for his guestbook entry]

• May 12, 2004: A May 2004 article (in German) by Peter-Erwin Jansen about Herbert and Rudi Dutschke has been added to my Dutschke-Herbert page: direct link to scanned text.
• July 9, 2004 (update Sept. 8): Reviews of vol. 4 of Herbert's papers ('The Student Movement and Its Consequences') added:
  - June 28, 2004 FAZ :see below; direct link;
  - July 29, 2004 Neues Deutschland review by Roger Behrens;
  - July 29, 2004 SZ review by Tim B. Muller (added 10/3/04)
  - Aug. 12, 2004 FR review by Gottfried Oy.
  - Oct. 2004 GlanzUndElend - quotations from many reviews
  In September 2004 this volume ranked 5th on a German non-fiction bestseller list (link).
  See also perlentaucher's Seite, and the publisher's page.
• July 29, 2004: cthe newspaper Neues Deutschland published this reflection by Roger Behrens: "»In der Geschichte ist nichts für immer« Herbert Marcuse zum 25. Todestag" ['In History Nothing Is Forever'].
• Sept. 8, 2004: A gravestone was installed on Herbert's Berlin gravesite in August 2004. I've added a gravestone picture page to the "Herbert's Ashes" page. (finished 10/3/04--includes images of the July 1979 ceremony in Starnberg with Habermas and Dutschke immediately after Herbert's death)
• Oct. 4, 2004: I've started restructuring this site, first by breaking out the long list of links into a "Web Site Index" page. While I was at it, I updated that page with new sites, and added material to the Haters page. That index of sites will be under construction for a while. I'd like it to become a two-column table with screenshots on the left, and my site assessments on the right.
  Also, I've added photographs of the July 1979 ceremony in Starnberg after Herbert's death, with Brick, Dubiel, Dutschke, Habermas, Neumann and Postone, to the Burial & Grave page, and reformatted the Ashes Story page.

• Oct. 6, 2004: An on-line version of Herbert's famous 1965 essay "Repressive Tolerance" is now available here. (links to it from my Herbert Haters page, where conservatives rail against their misunderstanding of the concept, added as well). See also the German translation, Repressive Toleranz.

• Oct 20, 2004: In July, on the 25th anniversary of Herbert's death, zu Klampen publishers reissued Herbert's collected works in paperback. (publisher's website)
  Schriften in 9 Bänden; Paperback, im Schuber; € 98,00; ISBN 3934920462
  Band 1: Der deutsche Künstlerroman. Frühe Aufsätze, 594 S.
  Band 2: Hegels Ontologie und die Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit, 368 S.
  Band 3: Aufsätze aus der Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 1934-1941, 320 S.
  Band 4: Vernunft und Revolution. Hegel und die Entstehung der Gesellschaftstheorie, 399 S.
  Band 5: Triebstruktur und Gesellschaft. Ein philosophischer Beitrag zu Sigmund Freud, 232 S.
  Band 6: Die Gesellschaftslehre des sowjetischen Marxismus, 260 S.
  Band 7: Der eindimensionale Mensch. Studien zur Ideologie der fortgeschrittenen Industriegesellschaft, 282 S.
  Band 8: Aufsätze und Vorlesungen 1948-1969, 319 S.
  Band 9: Konterrevolution und Revolte; Zeit-Messungen; Die Permanenz der Kunst, 241 S.
  
  
• Nov. 30, 2004: A new book of biographical "portraits" based on interviews with the children of prominent parents has been published in German. There is a chapter on Peter Marcuse.
  Das eigene Leben Leben: Kinder berühmter Eltern von Brandt bis Seghers, by Gabriele Oertel and Karlen Vesper-Gräske, Militzke Verlag Leipzig, €19.90 (publisher's page).
  
• Dec. 2, 2004: "El arte como forma de la realidad," a Spanish translation of Herbert's 1972 New Left Review article "Art as a Form of Reality," added to publications.

2005 Announcements (back to top)

• January 1, 2005: I've begun a massive restructuring of this site, starting by breaking down this formerly huge homepage into several major subpages: Publications Page, Book About Page, Courses Page, Scholars and Activists Page, Links Page.
  • The Publications Page is the backbone of the materials on this site. It links to full text versions of several of Herbert's best-known writings (One Dimensional Man, Repressive Tolerance), and provides links and information about many others.
  • It will take a while before I find the time to bring the formatting and links up to date. Please excuse the "under construction" look to some of the pages, and the broken links.
• Jan. 2005: Upcoming events and conferences: Panel "Marcuse and Education" at the AERA conference in April (Douglas Kellner, "Marcuse's Challenge to Education," Friday, Apr 15 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm, abstracts); also a conference in May 2005 in Brazil.
• January 25, 2005: On November 3-6, 2005 there will be a conference entitled "Reading Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization after 50 Years." It will be held at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia PA. If you are interested in participating, contact Dr. Arnold Farr
  <farr@mailhost.sju.edu>. [see March 1, 2005 update]
• 1/25/05: recent article about Herbert's June 1969 lecture tour in Italy added to News page: Diego Giachetti, "Giugno 1969: I 'Caldi' Giorni Italiani di Herbert Marcuse," Il Protagora, n. 4, luglio-dicembre 2004
• Jan. 31, 2005

  Collected Papers, vol. 3: The New Left and the 1960s, publ. Dec. 2004 $69.95 Routledge publishers amazon.com; .de Papers page

  Nachgelassene Schriften, vol. 4: Die Studentenbewe- gung & ihre Folgen publ. June 2004 € 24,00 zu Klampen publisher amazon.de Schriften page

  : Russell Jacoby's Nation review of vol. 3 of Herbert's papers, with brief responses by Douglas Kellner and Peter Marcuse, added.
• Feb. 18-20, 2005: massive updates to the Publications and Books About pages; as well as Wikipedia entry
• March 1, 2005: 50th Anniversary Eros and Civilization conference, Nov. 3-6, 2005 in Philadelphia.
  The Philosophy Department at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia invites paper submissions to a conference devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization. Papers are welcome on a wide range of topics: explication of Marcuse's project in Eros and Civilization; its place in his social philosophy; the influence of Marcuse's work in the past fifty years; its place in a critical theory of society; the importance of Eros and Civilization for fields such as psychology, aesthetics, and political philosophy; and prospects for a renewal of Marcuse's approach to social philosophy.
  See the conference website with call for papers, registration form, and contact information.
  For more information on Eros & Civ, including a list of reviews, see the Publications page.
• March 8, 2005: The pages that were not available since March 3 are back on-line. The counters are still not working. Sparklit was doing technical work from 3/4-3/10/05

• April 15, 2005: you can use google to search this site:
  

WWW www.marcuse.org

• April 23, 2005: upcoming conference, May 18-20, 2005: "Dimensão Estética: Homenagem aos 50 anos de Eros et Civilização," Belo Horizonte, Brazil. conference website. The title in English: "The Aesthetic Dimension: Homage to 50 years of Eros and Civilization"
  
   
  
  
  
  
• May 11, 2005: new Herbert and Surrealism Page (scans of 1989 article by Franklin Rosemont and Herbert's letters to the surrealists, 1971-73)
  
• May 18, 2005: Scans of Das Ende der Utopie (1967) added to Publications Page.
  
  
  
• May 20, 2005: Two new books by Christian Fuchs added to Books About Page: a short introductory reading guide to his intellectual background and works, and, a continuation of the introduction, a discussion of the implications of Herbert's ideas.
• May 23, 2005: major site reorganization after move to a new server; use of background color on pages. Note: server now defaults to index.html, not .htm.
• May 27, 2005: Formatting and links on many pages updated. Full texts of The End of Utopia (also scans of German original with discussion), 1947-48 Marcuse-Heidegger correspondence (English and German) added. Numerous new entries on News and Conferences, and Scholars and Activists pages.
• May 30, 2005: site search (using google) now added to header box, above. Numerous new entries on Publications, Books About pages, including texts of reviews of Herbert's works and by Herbert from the 1940s and 1950s. I'm sure there are still bugs in the images, but I'll work on them as time permits. I'd appreciate notification if you encounter a missing page.
• June 15, 2005: The site search function will return some broken links and miss some pages until google crawls this site again. I am now finished with my major reorganization and updates. Since the site search is powered by google, it will not register that many pages have moved until it reindexes this site (should be done every 4-6 weeks). I've left redirect pages in some of the more important locations. Sorry about any inconvenience you may encounter.
• July 7, 2005: google has re-crawled this site, so the search function is reliable again. After his note in the guestbook, I've added Alan J. Dobson's 1989 dissertation to the Books About page, as well as some 1968 articles. Theresa MacKey's excellent biographical article has been archived, and many citations of interesting articles added to the Publications page. Finally, I put many images on the Sophie Marcuse page.
• June 9, 2005: I've added scans of many (!) reviews Herbert wrote in the 1940s and 1950s, and reviews of his 1932 Hegel, 1941 Reason & Revolution, 1958 Soviet Marxism books, to the Publications Page, also a 1969 interview about Adorno after Adorno's sudden death, and started a Sound and Video page to collect links to multimedia sources.
• June 12, 2005: In addition to a new page about the film Herbert's Hippopotamus (with a time-coded description of the film), I've cleaned up the site. That means that until google crawls it again, some of the duplicate results from the "site search" feature (showing the same file in multiple locations) won't be available. But that shouldn't pose much of a problem.
  As an addendum to the June 9 announcements, I've added the full texts of a number of articles to the Books About Page. See esp. 1952, 1970, 1971, 1979, 1999. And there are new entries (from York University) on the Courses Page.
• June 14, 2005: I'm still trying to keep abreast of new material, which has been added to the Heidegger page, as well as Scholars and Activists and News & Events (links to full texts of Italian articles from 1998 to 2003).
  I've also started a section for Raffaele Laudani's Italian edition of Herbert's collected/unpublished papers.
• July 19, 2005: Today is Herbert's 107th birthday. For this occasion Doug Ireland wrote an excellent blog entry, with reminiscences by his "former Village Voice colleague Jeff Weinstein, who these days is both culture columnist and Fine Arts Editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer," and Ariel Dorfman, "the prolific Chilean playwright-political essayist-poet-scenarist-novelist," now at North Carolina. (Added to News and Events Page, with links from Scholar-Activists.)
  July 20: updated with reminiscence by Norman Birnbaum, and republished (without images) on Z-Net.
• July 19, 2005: Newly found: journalist and critic Danny Postel's August 2000 interview with Lowell Bergman, The 60 Minutes producer who was played by Al Pacino in the 1999 movie The Insider (entry added on Scholar-Activists, and link on the Sound & Video Page).
• July 24, 2005: Doug Ireland's blog entry has been drawing visitors to this site (see the stats, below). On July 22, Ireland's page was selected as dissidentvoice.org's site of the day with the following text: "Marcuse's work, though unknown to most younger activists and university students today, inspired countless activists and thinkers from the '50s to the '70s to construct a new radical politics that rejected both capitalism and authoritarian communism. His writings and seminal ideas may indeed be more relevant today than ever before, and people concerned about the future in these agonizing times would do well to revisit Marcuse's work. Journalist Doug Ireland remembers this important figure, and provides many valuable links to web sites featuring Marcuse's writings as well as critical essays and audio/video clips about him."
  Based on my correspondence with Doug, I've added several more entries on the Scholars & Activists Page: Ron Aronson, Norman Birnbaum, Norman Geras, and Ireland himself.
• Aug. 2, 2005: Oct. 4, 2005 presentation in Berlin by Dr. Wolfgang Lenk: "Klassiker der Kritik I: Herbert Marcuse - Der eindimensionale Mensch (1964)," added to the News & Events page. Sponsored by Anders arbeiten. For more information follow the link above or contact: andersarbeiten@riseup.net.
  Blurb: 'Marcuses Buch stammt unverkennbar aus dem sog. "goldenen Zeitalter" des Kapitalismus - es diagnostiziert den "Sieg über das unglückliche Bewußtsein" durch die Kräfte der Massenkultur, die Vergöttlichung von Arbeitsethos und neuester Technologie. Und es war von größter Bedeutung für die Revolte von 1968. Heute, in Zeiten des marktliberalen Umbaus, sind wir erneut mit umfassenden Transformationen von Kultur, Technologie und Menschenbild konfrontiert. Ist Marcuses eindimensionaler Mensch ein Vorläufer des "flexiblen Menschen" (Richard Sennett), also eines vollständig der Vermarktlichung unterworfenen Lebensmodells? Was macht seine Analyse heute wieder lesenswert? Was unterscheidet die Bedingungen für Protest damals und heute?'
• Aug. 3, 2005: additions and corrections to J.J. Shapiro and Shierry Weber Nicholsen entries on Scholars & Activists Page. Both attended the May 2005 Brazilian Eros & Civ. conference.
• Aug. 29, 2005: May 2005 Eros & Civilization conference program (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) now available; also Raffaele Laudani's new book, an Aug. 6 review of vol. 1 of the Italian edition of Herbert's papers, 'Beyond One Dimensional Man,' edited by Raffaele Laudani (see Publications page).
• Aug. 31, 2005: I'm working through a backlog of things people have sent me for the website. I've added a 2002 article by Elena Tebano on the origin of Herbert's "Proust Notes," and a hitherto unpublished 2002 essay by Amy Serrano drawing on Herbert's ideas to examine female artist-activists. For the latter I've created a new "Unpublished and Student Papers Page" -- students out there, submissions are welcome. Also full text of chap. 2 of Raffaele Laudani's 2002 dissertation; F.O. Wolf's July 2003 Berlin presentation.
• Oct. 14, 2005: With only hours to spare, there's a talk this evening, 8pm, in Starnberg:
  as part of the "Literarischer Herbst": KD Wolff spricht über Herbert Marcuse: "Vernunft als erotische Energie" (der Titel stammt nicht von ihm), in the Villa Böhler, (jetzt Montessori-Schule), EUR 10.- Eintritt, veranstaltet vom Kulturbureau Borst. (I've also added an entry on Wolff on the Scholars & Activists Page)
• Nov. 2, 2005: Eros and Civilization conference in Philadelphia starts tomorrow.
  (Publications page updated and counter added.)

2006 Announcements (back to top)

• Jan. 2, 2006: new addition to Books About page: Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss der Freien Universität Berlin (ed.), Zur Aktualität der Philosophie Herbert Marcuses: Dokumentation einer Veranstaltung an der Freien Universität Berlin am 17. Juli 2003 (Berlin: Asta, 2005)(Hochschulpolitische Reihe, vol. 12), 175 pages.
  • contributions by: Detlev Claussen, Angela Davis, Thomas Flierl, Gunter Gebauer, Hartmut Häussermann, Axel Honneth, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Eberhard Lämmert, Wolfgange Lefévre, Harold Marcuse, Peter Marcuse, Frieder Otto Wolf  (all in German, except Harold's and Angela Davis's contributions are in both German and English). scan of table of contents; Asta der FU Hochschulpolitsche Reihe page
• Jan. 15, 2006: 1998 French article added to News/Events page: Gilles Châtelet, "L'Homme pour qui la résignation était ringarde: Relire Marcuse pour ne pas vivre comme des porcs," in: Le Monde diplomatique, August 1998, pp. 22-23. The title translates as: 'The Man for whom resignation was old-fashioned: Rereading Marcuse in order not to live like pigs.' Link thanks to Doug Ireland, who found it while doing a column on Gilles Deleuze (Châtelet connected the two for an interview in 1995). The title refers also to Châtelet's 1998 book, whose title translates as: "To Live and Think Like Pigs: envy and boredom in market-economy democracies."
• Feb. 6, 2006: YEESSS!!! We are proud to announce that former UCLA campus Republicans chair Andrew Jones's "Dirty Thirty" list of radical professors features two scholars with links of some sort or other to Herbert. This week Doug Kellner even made it to "Radical of the Week" (he's no. 3 on the list). Russell Jacoby squeaked in at no. 28, and I spot Jackie Leavitt's picture in the header collage. Jones' site is at uclaprofs.com. For more information see the California Federation of Teachers summary and links page.
• Feb. 28, 2006: Added: 1978 interview about the Aesthetic Dimension, and Ralph Dumain to the Scholars & Activists Page (with links to several of the Marcuse-texts on his site).
• March 5, 2006: Not only did several of Herbert's students make Andrew Jones' top "dirty thirty" list of UCLA professors (see Feb. 6 announcment), but Herbert himself features in Jones' intellectual mentor David Horowitz's "101 most dangerous academics in America". I'd love to include here the relevant excerpt from Horowitz' new book The Professors ($28/18 at amazon), but I'd hate to buy another cranky, whiney conservative author's book. Anyone care to send me a scan or excerpt for my Haters Page? [note 6/28/06: I should be able to add text in late July; added 8/6/06]
  Ready for Halloween? Here's some publisher's hype from the dust jacket (courtesy of amazon):
  • "David Horowitz reveals a shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students. ... Today’s radical academics are, ... far from being harmless, ... spew violent anti-Americanism, preach anti-Semitism, and cheer on the killing of American soldiers and civilians—all the while collecting tax dollars and tuition fees to indoctrinate our children. ... The Professors is truly frightening—and an intellectual call to arms from a courageous author who knows the radicals all too well."
  • 6/28/06: an April 5, 2006 entry in the guestbook suggests adding a link to this 4/4/06 Guardian article by Gary Younge: "Silence in class: University professors denounced for anti-Americanism; schoolteachers suspended for their politics; students encouraged to report on their tutors. Are US campuses in the grip of a witch-hunt of progressives, or is academic life just too liberal?"
• June 28, 2006: David Satz, a musician and recording engineer who at the time recorded an October 1970 radio broadcast of a lecture by Herbert with an hourlong Q&A afterward, donated two sound files for inclusion on this site.
  • 44min/21Mbyte mp3 of the lecture; 60min/28M mp3 of the Q&A.
    Note: I have broadband, and these are 4 1/2 and 6 min. downloads for me.
  • I don't know the title yet (may be able to add the introduction soon), but the topic seems to be something like: 'to what extent is The Revolution possible today'?
  • Archived on the Sound and Video page.
  • This is a superb lecture with fascinating and evocative Q&A. Many thanks, David
• Aug. 7, 2006: I just added a longer excerpt from David Horowitz's 2006 book The Professors to the Haters page.
• Sept. 15, 2006: Added to Books About page: 1971 interview by Sam Keen and John Raser, "A Conversation with Herbert Marcuse: Revolutionary Eroticism, the Tactics of Terror, the Young, Psychotherapy, the Environment, Technology, Reich," in: Psychology Today 4:2(Feb. 1971), 35-40, 60-66. This is a superb piece in which Herbert gives frank answers to excellent questions. (On Aug. 17, 2006 an Australian graduate student wrote the following in the site guestbook: "Do you have any info about the late Professor John Raser, a former student of Herbert Marcuse and his advocate in Perth, Western Australia?")
• Dec. 11, 2006: Thanks to Uli Schöberl (Bauhaus University, Weimar), who notes in the guestbook that you can watch the full video Herbert's Hippopotamus on google video.
• Dec. 11, 2006: The International Herbert Marcuse Society will hold its second annual conference at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia PA on November 8th-11th, 2007. The topic is "Critique and Liberation in the Work of Herbert Marcuse." If you wish to present a paper, please send an abstract to Arnold Farr <farr@mailhost.sju.edu> by March 15, 2007. I've also added Prof. Farr to the Scholars page.
• Dec. 11, 2006: I have removed the bulk of One-Dimensional Man from this website (leaving only the introduction, chap. 1, and the conclusion) because Beacon Press requested it, attributing a recent decline in sales to the existence of this internet version. If any visitors have thoughts about how the existence of this web version might affect their decision to purchase (or not to purchase) the book itself, please share them in the Guestbook, below.
  • I see two conflicting factors: On the one hand, its existence on this site makes the work available to many people around the world who would never be able to purchase the book, while generally increasing the book's visibility, thereby not decreasing, but probably promoting sales.
  • On the other hand, if college courses are requiring the book, students might be tempted to read it on-line instead of purchasing it. However, there is a thriving used market (over 90 copies on amazon.com, and over 200 on abebooks.com), indicating that there is a large buffer before readers have to purchase a new copy.
• Dec. 14, 2006: two new publications added to the Books About page: a collection of key Frankfurt School texts edited by Axel Honneth, and an essay by Peter-Erwin Jansen, "'Die Begierde nach Gesellschaft:' Herbert Marcuses Blick für die Unzulänglichkeiten staatlicher Utopien." Stasi file: Jansen's article includes a description of the file maintained about him by the East German Stasi spy agency (pdf p. 9, essay p. 35).
• Dec. 21, 2006: Scanned 1968 sermon added to Books About page: John Ruskin Clark, What's Wrong with Marcuse's One Dimensional Man (San Diego, First Unitarian Church of San Diego, 1968). Transcript of a sermon delivered to the First Unitarian Church of San Diego Oct. 13, 1968; concerning Herbert Marcuse's famous philosophical tract; seven pages.
• Dec. 21: 19 page pdf (473K) contains front matter and Jansen's 15 page essay (courtesy of Offizin Publishers--thank you!)
  [I also typed in some excerpts from A.Soellner's Zur Archäologie d. Dem. (1982)]

2007 Announcements (back to top)

• Jan. 17, 2007: A new and a forthcoming publication:
  • Art and Liberation (Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, vol. 4), edited by Douglas Kellner (Routledge, Dec. 2006), 272 pages.
    ($78 at amazon; Routledge page)
  • The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse, edited by Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss (Beacon, 2007), 304 pages is due out March 15. (Beacon page; $20 at amazon)
• Feb. 17, 2007: The site was down for about a week, but is now running again on a new server. Sorry to our readers for any inconvenience!
• April 1, 2007: The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse, is now available. (Beacon page with TOC ; $20 at amazon)
• June 27, 2007: Long time no updates--my apologies to those whose e-mails I haven't processed yet. Yesterday's radio broadcast on "The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse" prompts me to return to these updates.
  • June 26, 2007 San Francisco Public Radio KQED hourlong Forum on "The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse," hosted by Michael Krasny, with Peter Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Willian Leiss and Osha Neumann. With mp3 and RealMedia stream, or 24MB mp3 archived on this site. More details on Sound and Video page .
• August 1, 2007: The left-wing Berlin daily newspaper TAZ published a review of the fourth (and last) volume of the Adorno-Horkheimer correspondence. It turns out that the last note Adorno wrote to Horkheimer, less than a week before he died, was a comment that Herbert was 'unfriendly' because he returned Adorno's last letter because he couldn't decipher Adorno's handwriting, 'even with a magnifying glass.' The review notes: "Er [Adorno] versuchte immer wieder verzweifelt und vergeblich, Marcuse vor dem studentischen Radikalismus zu warnen: ein Dezisionismus schaue bei ihnen heraus, 'der ans Grauen erinnert'. Die linke Revolte und das Verhältnis zu Herbert Marcuse sind Adornos Hauptsorgen in seinen letzten Lebensjahren."
• Aug. 22, 2007: two hitherto unpublished theses about Herbert's work are now available on the Unpublished Papers page:
  • Craig Whittall, "Marcuse contra Marx: Revolutionary Strategy and the Role of the Proletariat in the Work of Herbert Marcuse," BA honors thesis in the Department of Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, April 2007
  • 1998: Fabio Fino, "Herbert Marcuse: Dalla Rivoluzione All'Utopia," 1998 Tesi di Laurea, University of Bari, Italy
• Sept. 23, 2007: scan of an article about how Herbert was invited to speak at a fraternity in 1979 added to News & Events Page (scan).
  • The second volume of Herbert's papers in Italian, Marxismo e nuova sinistra, edited by Raffaele Laudani, is now available. (publisher's website)[note to self: add to bottom of Publications page (done 11/6/07)]:
    "Questo secondo volume degli scritti di Marcuse raccoglie un’ampia selezione di testi inediti degli anni Sessanta e Settanta sul marxismo. Alla luce delle trasformazioni della società capitalistica avanzata del secondo dopoguerra e in un serrato confronto con le posizioni della nuova sinistra, del femminismo e dell’ambientalismo, il filosofo francofortese elabora una nuova «teoria critica» che ripensa radicalmente i fondamenti del marxismo critico del Novecento e lo apre alle novità del mondo globale, anticipando così molti temi del dibattito attuale, dalla nuova centralità del lavoro immateriale alle forme plurali e molteplici della soggettività ribelle dei movimenti antisistemici. Fra i testi pubblicati, sette lezioni inedite tenute a Parigi nel 1974 e un lungo commento del 1979 alle Tesi di Rudolph Bahro, che per molti versi può essere considerato il testamento intellettuale del filosofo tedesco. Correda e chiude il volume un ampio carteggio inedito con Raya Dunayevskaya, tra le figure più innovative e moderne del marxismo statunitense."
  • Myriam Malinovich Miedzian added to Scholar Activists page.
• Sept. 28, 2007: Doðan Barýþ Kýlýnç (Dogan Baris Kilinc), Turkish translation of Herbert's 1969 short essay "The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity: A Reconsideration" added to Publications page (where you can read the English original as well, including a discussion between Herbert and Ernst Bloch).
  • With many thanks to Mr. Kilinc, who recently completed his M.A. thesis in Ankara: "Labor, Leisure and Freedom in The Philosophies of Aristotle, Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse," (Ankara, Turkey: Middle East Technical University, 2006), 106 pages. (pdf in English available on Unpublished Papers page)
  • 9/30/07: also added: Kilinc's Turkish translation of "End of Utopia" (1967)
• Oct. 8, 2007: Added: notes and audio from April 1975 'dialog with Kate Millett'
  • Also: personal reminiscence by Myriam Miedzian (Guestbook page)
• Nov. 6, 2007: Tim Mueller's publications added to Books About page; Collected papers updated
• Nov 8-10, 2007: " Critique and Liberation in the Work of Herbert Marcuse," conference at Saint Joseph's University Marcuse in Philadelphia (program)
• Nov. 9, 2007: information about a CD of radio broadcasts of Herbert in Germany that is currently in production added to Sound and Video page.
• Nov. 12, 2007: 2004 MA thesis added: Tim B. Müller: "Herbert Marcuse, die Frankfurter Schule und der Holocaust, to Unpublished papers page
• Nov. 14, 2007: Excerpts from Herbert's 1954-1978 correspondence with Raya Dunayevskaya (formerly Trotsky's secretary) added to Publications page. The pdf includes discussions of the correspondence by Kevin Anderson and Douglas Kellner, published in the Quarterly Journal of Ideology in 1990 in commemoration of Dunayevskaya's death.
• Nov. 19, 2007: new publication added to Books About page: Rodney Fopp (University of South Australia), "Herbert Marcuse's 'Repressive Tolerance' and his Critics," in: Borderlands e-journal 6:1(2007), ca. 11 pages plus bibliography.
• Dec. 8, 2007: full audio recording of 1967 Dialectics of Liberation presentation in London now available, also Alexander Cockburn's 12/17/07 Nation column mentioning that lecture (with a cute anecdote about him cooking dinner for Herbert & Inge); also pdf of Tim B. Mueller's 2004 Master's Thesis.

2008 Announcements (back to top)