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- 1964: Herbert Marcuse (Los Angeles: Pacifica Tape Library, 1964), 1 sound cassette (59 min.): The philosopher and political theorist discusses his book, One Dimensional Man and Society. [worldcat: Ball State, Colby, ...]
- 1967 lecture "Liberation from the Affluent Society"
- in: David Cooper (ed.), The Dialectics of Liberation
(Harmondsworth/Baltimore: Penguin, 1968), 175-192
- presentation at the London Dialectics of Liberation conference
- full text with sound clip (2:20 mins; 417K .wav file)
- The entire conference was recorded and is available on a series of 23 LP records. Herbert's talk is on record 11, with a continuation on record 9.
I have an audiotape cassette of the former, which I could copy if someone were really interested. Added 12/9/07: : 26 mins. (3.2M) , 20 mins. (2.4M), 5 mins. (600k). The full text "Liberation from the Affluent Society page" has more information.
- There is also a 30 min. documentary video about the conference, "Anatomy of Violence," produced and directed by Peter Davis ($30). It includes footage of Herbert.
Villon Films "Anatomy of Violence" page
- 1968, May 2: Herbert Marcuse on the new man (Pacifica Radio Archive, 1986, 1968), 1 sound cassette (76 min.); 1/8 in. tape. Recorded at New York University [WorldCat: Wheaton College]
- Sponsored by The Hardain and New York University Committee to End the War.
- 1969, October 24, noon at Sproul Plaza, Berkeley
- 1 sound tape reel :; analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track; 5 in.
- Abstract: Speech relates to Angela Davis, University of California and students' roles in society. Transcript also available. [UC Berkeley Hardin B. Jones papers]
- Also 1 page flyer [worldcat: Northern Ill.]: "Angela Davis, lecturer in philosophy, UCLA, recently fired by the regents for her membership in the communist party, and reinstated by the courts, Herbert Marcuse, professor of philosophy, UC, San Diego, author, One-dimensional man, Eros and civilization, Reason and revolution, Essay on liberation"
- 1969: Wheeler, John Harvey, A conversation with Herbert Marcuse
(Santa Barbara, Calif., Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1969),1 sound cassette (28 min.): "Center Fellow Harvey Wheeler explores with Herbert Marcuse varieties of humanism: Christian, Renaissance, existential, and Marxist."
- 196x-7x: Professor Herbert Marcuse questioned (Pacifica: 1960-1975),
Description: 1 reel.; 7 in.; 3 3/4 ips.; full-track.; mono.
Note(s): "A group discussion centered about the Marxist professor from San Diego."/ Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.Participants: Robert Lynch, psychiatrist; Regina Brunig, Ken Carr, Lowell Ponte, Bill Netzer, students; Doug Lewis, moderator. [worldcat]
- 1970: Herbert Marcuse on the new man (Pacifica Tape Library,1976, 1970) 3 sound cassettes; analog, 3 3/4 ips, 7 1/4 x 3 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape: Three lectures by Dr. Marcuse on The New Man.
- 1970, October 11: "title to be added," at the Ford Hall Forum, Boston.
- 44min/21M mp3 of the lecture
- 60min/28M mp3 of the Q&A. Note: these are long downloads: 4-6 minutes with broadband.
- I don't know the title yet (I may be able to add the introduction soon), but the topic seems to be something like: 'To what extent is The Revolution possible today'?
- David Satz, a musician and recording engineer who at the time recorded a radio broadcast of this lecture, donated these files in June 2006. He wrote the following:
On Oct. 11, 1970 Herbert Marcuse spoke at the Ford Hall Forum at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston. At that time I was a student at the Conservatory. The Ford Hall Forum talks were broadcast on a local radio station, and I recorded several on cassette, including this one.
- Ford Hall Forum About page; their Notable Past Speakers page doesn't include Herbert
- Many recent Ford Hall Forum lectures (since ca. 2001, with one 1963 lecture by Martin Luther King jr.) are available on-line at the Boston public radio station WGBH's forum network website, which has a wonderful archive of lectures held at other "partner" venues as well (but none by Herbert)
- 1971: Apocalypse or apocrypha? Herbert Marcuse, his prescription for the next world.
- [sound recording] Music Pub. No. Center for Cassette Studies 080-24283 (North Hollywood, Calif.: Center for Cassette Studies, [197-]) 1 sound cassette (48 min.): analog, 2 track.
- Graduate Theological Union library of UC Berkeley
- Marcuse delineates his neo-Marxist concepts, analyzing the utilization of existing resources by both East and West, the effects of the Third World revolution, the inevitable self-destruction of the consumer society, and the liberation of man through "social idealism."
- Today's most influential thinker lays out his prescription for the next world (Center for Cassette Studies, 1971), 1 cassette.; 2-track.; mono., 48 mins. Series: Revolutionary man Variation: Revolutionary man.
Abstract: Herbert Marcuse discusses his neo-marxist concepts and the evolution of the new man through "socialist idealism." [worldcat]
- 1975: A dialogue on feminism: Herbert Marcuse meets Kate Millett. [Sound recording]
- Recorded at University of California, San Diego, on April 25, 1975. [UCSD library]
- program sponsored by UCSD Women's Center and University Extension Women's Programs
- Commentators: Mary Lindenstein Walshok and Pat Allen
- I listened to this tape in October 2007. There are two cassettes, a 90-min, and a 60-min. I couldn't find any sound on the 60 min, but working from a remote station, I'm not sure I rewound that second tape completely in either direction (I ran out of time).
They are available in the Music library in the below-ground main level of Geisel library.
- Tape 1, side 1:
- Herbert reads a statement for a group protesting that the Mandville Center events were too expensive for students to afford; then
Intro by Walshok + Millett lecture (file 1: 34 min. wma file, 8Mb)
- Herbert's lecture (file 2, 11 min.wma file, 3Mb) [end of side 1]
concludes '...men are also badly in need of liberation'
- Tape 1, side 2:
- End or Herbert's talk; Pat Allen's talk (file 3, 24 min. wma file, 6Mb)
Allen: 'I'm a member of the proletariat, socialist, feminist, teacher at a junior college'
- Discussion (file 4, 21 min. wma file, 5Mb)
Walshok addresses Millet, who says she's read Herbert's paper [is it published?]: he has a tendency to romanticize the feminine. Some coy comments between KM and HM.
- She meant his romanticism as a curse-word? Some repression in herself is coming up
- His sexism is live: story of female guard at Soledad prison (where Angela is), biggest trouble was with other guards, not inmates
- Q: female traits [HM corrects:] have been made antagonistic to mode of production, keep capitalists home warm and well-fed
R: Millett (?):
tender and emotional, docile and understanding, efficient-warlike
- Herbert suggests opening to audience questions
- Q: Kate said female attributes respected only when males ununciated in religious context, ceremony [louder!]
- Q (by male): Marcuse took example, discussed in last book, image of a woman in Playboy as potentially liberating [audience laughs]
HM: not exactly what he said
Q cont'd: anything that is erotically liberating is potentially revolutionary
HM: an insult to those ... a woman posing on a *soft* couch is not the same as the brutal exploitation of the blue-collar
working class
KM (sarcastic): Blow jobs and massage parlors are not very heavy work ... great white master, instant slavery
Playboy not revolutionary ... degradation of women
HM: Penthouse prefers men
- Woman (Allen?): Example of repressive desublimation -- reads Playgirl, thinks she's liberated
HM 8 hours on assembly line is much worse
Woman (overlapping): she was on assembly line
- Q (by male--sounds like the 'eternal graduate student' in Herbert's hippo)): Studs Terkel on fashion models
KM: only our first
- 1978 interview: published text only: Myriam Miedzian Malinovich, "Herbert Marcuse in 1978: An Interview," Social Research 48:2 (Summer 1981), 362-394 (pdf)
- 1979: Interview, April 25, 1979 [sound recording]: Herbert Marcuse, interviewed by Helen Hawkins [UCSD library catalog]
- Audio version of interview done as part of the Viewpoints television program produced by KPBS Television, San Diego, Calif ; recorded at KPBS Television, San Diego, Calif; acquired 1995. 2 sound cassettes (ca. 2 hrs.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips
- UCSD special collections, Listening copy is SPL-1337; archival master retained in H. Hawkins collection (MSS 131)
- 1980: Interview 1979? by Waltrud Mannfeld.
- Broadcast on German channel 2 ZDF on January 18, 1980.
- transcript published in: P.E. Jansen (ed.), Befreiung Denken (1990), 17-29. (see entry on Books About Page for more information)
- 19xx: Radio recording: Moses Abramovitz and Herbert Marcuse, "The Work of Paul Baran" [sound recording]. CD at UC Riverside library.
- Music Pub. No. BB1563 Pacifica Radio Archives
Publisher North Hollywood, CA : Pacifica Radio Archives, [200-?]
Description 1 sound disc (61 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Series Pacifica Radio Archives; BB1563
- "An appraisal of Baran's work, Abramovitz, Chairman of the Department of Economics at Stanford University, and Marcuse, a political scientist, open a conference on 'Baran and American Radicalism Today.' Recorded at Stanford University."
- 2007, June 26: San Francisco Public Radio KQED hourlong (52 mins) Forum on "The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse," hosted by Michael Krasney, with Peter Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Willian Leiss and Osha Neumann.
- The show discusses the legacy of Herbert Marcuse, and whether the German-born philosopher's work informs today's progressive movement. Guests:
- Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education chair at UCLA and author of "Towards a Critical Theory of Society, Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse"
- Osha Neumann, artist and social justice lawyer at the East Bay Community Law Center
- Peter Marcuse, Herbert Marcuse's son and professor emeritus of Urban Planning at Columbia University
- William Leiss, scientist at the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa and co-author of "The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse"
- Approximate contents:
- Starts asking Osha: What was Frankfurt School with Horkheimer and Adorno? Did Herbert work for the US government during World War II? Yes--against fascism.
- :05 asks Peter: Are Herbert's ideas relevant today? (Sarkozi: "It's time to be done with '68")
What about relevance of Herbert's writings on technological threat? Peter reads a comment by someone at the G8 summit in Germany 2 weeks ago.
- :09 introduces Leiss, asks about Herbert as a teacher (at Brandeis and UCSD)
- :14 Hater's page on this site--why do conservatives revile him so, as the father of Political Correctness? Leiss: misunderstanding--Herbert was completely open, invited critique.
After days of activism they would spend hours reading a few pages (100 pages in 20 weeks)
- :14 asks Peter did Herbert make 100s of 1000s of dollars?
- :15 asks Kellner about why he published Herbert's collected papers. Kellner read Herbert at Columbia in the 1960s. Then met Herbert there in 1968-69. Herbert advised activists: If you want to change the world, you need knowledge of it. Practice needs theory.
:19 Did Marcuse think only whites can be racist? What about Marxism?
New international Marcuse conference (link to Events page); new editions
- :20 asks about the concept of "Repressive Tolerance"
Peter: today they're reading One Dimensional Man in a reading group on urban planning at Columbia. "Another world is possible"
- :23 Osha--an anarchist (group "Up Against the Wall, Mother Fuckers") on Herbert's relevance today
- :25 [was at 10:30] break, then calls from listeners
- asks Osha how he is Herbert's stepson and his son-in-law?
-Listener asks for comparison with Trotsky in regard to cultural criticism. Kellner responds: Herbert had similar leftist critique of the Soviet Union, but also critical of Trotskyist followers. Herbert had broader emancipatory appeal to feminists, gays, Blacks, ...
-Anecdote from Kathleen in Berkeley, the former wife of a grad student, who attended a Passover seder at Herbert's house in La Jolla. Maybe his house appreciated to be worth millions? But not independently wealthy. Peter responds: there are royalties, but nothing like those sums.
-Paul, who was in the antiwar movement, discussed Marcuse a lot: Were there any women theorists like Marcuse? Leiss answers--Angela Davis; seminars were gender-mixed, but also male chauvinism. Peter: e.g. Cindy Sheehan, also more than 1/2 of Social Forum.
-:33 Anecdote from a Brandeis undergrad: Herbert was a wonderful teacher, but conservatives couldn't speak out in Herbert's seminars, more because of other students, but Herbert didn't intervene. Finds One Dimensional Man contemptuous, dark--typical of Brandeis at that time..
Peter responds: Herbert always defended academic freedom. But: Herbert did not tolerate nonsense, like Bush on stem cell research. Osha: Herbert never would shout anyone down, but lots of intolerance of the atrocity of Vietnam war. And ODM was perhaps not pessimistic enough. Herbert was optimistic and supported hope, but also a realist.
-AJ, and under-30 listener: How would you describe Herbert at a cocktail party?
Kellner: "critical theorist"--critique, radical, liberationist.
Leiss responds: mischevious, incredible sense of humor
-:38 email:
Paul Wilkenson, Terrorism and the Liberal State [1986, $4 on amazon] calls Herbert an apologist for terrorism Are Herbert's writing an apology for terrorism? Osha: Herbert was profoundly non-violent. Freud's "polymorphous perversity." Hippos. Peter: op-ed in NYT in early 1970s, condemned all violence where there is a reasonable alternative--which he thought there was then (and is now).
-:42 Caller Laura, 29, B.A. in philosophy, hadn't heard of "Herbie," more our parents' philosopher (grew up in an anti-authoritarian household). Herbert's advice was trite/glib, what they needed was more structure. Osha responded: read his works--that's not what H. said. H. was more about a way of thinking, to get at truths.
-:44 Mike, age 22 from San Jose: enjoying program, Che and Lenin left a powerful mark, wonders why Herbert didn't. Leiss responds:
-:46 Barry in Santa Cruz: debate with Norman O. Brown [Love's Body, , Marcuse's 'Nirvana principle' was similar, why did they disagree. Kellner: both agreed on much, e.g. emancipatory potential of art. But Herbert emphasized critique, while Brown believed more in the power of aesthetics. Discussion of Heidegger -- see Kellner's edition of Herbert's papers War Technology and Fascism. [also Heidegger page here]
- :50 asks Kellner about influence today. Liess: Herbert's time will come again, since we need the utopian impulse--that is to be found in the book he edited, The Essential Marcuse ($20 at amazon).
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