1/5/16 addition: 1977:Interview with R. Kearney, in: Crane Bag 1:1(1977), 76-85.
[UCepub Jan 2016]
11/2/14: The 2002 4-part BBC Documentary Century of the Self(wikipedia page) about Freud, his daughter
Anna, and nephew Edward Bernays, contains a bit of footage and commentary about Herbert, at 2 hrs, 8-9 mins on
this complete Vimeo upload (by JC Baird in May 2014, on 11/2/14 viewed
6700 times, 19 likes).
It is also at 11:00 on this upload of part III (vimeo by Cocolino in
Nov. 2013,
14k views in Nov. 2014).
Maine new media artist N.B. Aldrich (website bio) put
together this reader of 3
articles to accompany the series (archive
copy). It contains Doug Kellner's "Marcuse and the New Left."
10/20/14: From a link in the guestbook, "Herbert Marcuse's
Last trip"--a 2:56 min. video of the hearse (Leichenwagen) arriving at the
Dorotheenstädtischer Cemetery in Berlin in July 2003. Uploaded in August 2014 by Moritz Reichelt. That was
the hearse's last trip, too, before being put in the German Historical Museum. It had previously transported
such celebrities as Marlene Dietrich.
11/29/12: 1977 print interview with Frederick Olafson--need to acquire and add to Interviews section:
"Heidegger's Politics: An Interview with Herbert Marcuse by Frederick Olafson," in:
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 6:1(1977), 28-40. page 1
online (journal of the New School)
Reprinted in The Essential Marcuse (2007), pp. 115-127 with a short introduction (google
books).
8/25/12: 1971 Print interview with Moshe Dayan added to Interviews section,
below.
8/18/10: I just added links to some interviews with Herbert that were uploaded to youtube in the past
year, one in German (1976) and one in English (1977/78)--see the April and Dec. 2009 entries in the YouTube section, below.
The exchange with Bryan Magee about whether or not politicians are dominated by private economic interests (p.
49 of the print version) is amusing from a 2010
perspective.
. 5/16/10: I just uploaded the first 8 minutes of Herbert's 1967 lecture "Liberation
from the Affluent Society" to youtube. This is taken from the 46 min
DVD created by Peter Villon for the Oct. 2009 Toronto Marcuse Society conference
participants. The text
of Liberation from ... is available in full on this
website.
YouTube now has some additional material, including several clips from
an interview on a Modern Philosophy series, "Herbert
Marcuse on the Frankfurt School" (sect.
I 8:36; sect.
2 8:56; sect.
3 9:47; sect.
4 9:43; sect.
5 7:08) [uploaded Dec. 2009 on May 16,
2010: I:7,343 views, II:3,130; III: 2,284; IV:2,057 views; V:3,431
views]
added 6/27/07: 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.
added 10/8/07: notes
on the 1975 "dialog" between Herbert and Kate Millett at UCSD
(below).
added 11/9/07: information
about a CD of radio broadcasts
of Herbert in Germany that is currently in production (also to be available
as downloadable .mp3s).
added 12/9/07: Audio
recording of Herbert's 1967 lecture "Liberation from the Affluent
Society" (at the London Dialectics of Liberation conference):
26 mins.
(3.2M) , 20 mins.
(2.4M), 5 mins.
(600k). See the full text "Liberation
from the Affluent Society page" for more information.
6/9/09: 3 min 30
sec. video clip of a June 14, 1971 interview in French (I've never heard
Herbert's French before--it's excellent), about the role of technology
in future societies, broadcast by Temps présent, is available
at archives.tsr.ch/player/personnalite-marcuse.
(thanks to Alain Martineau for the link).
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
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.
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."
Available as 3.4MB
.wma file.
At the end of the tape the narrator says excerpts will be published in
the Center's July issue.
The interview was conducted between sessions of an East-West dialog conference,
and focuses on the question of what is Marxist humanism.
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.
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.
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]
1971: 3 min 30 sec. video clip of a June 14, 1971 interview
in French about the role of technology in future societies, broadcast by
Temps présent
Dans le cadre d'un reportage sur les progrès de la science,
Temps présent interroge le philosophe américain d'origine
allemande Herbert Marcuse, professeur aux Etats-Unis. La pensée
de Marcuse sur la société de consommation a largement influencé
les mouvements de gauche qui s'engagèrent dans les événements
de Mai 68.
Dans cet entretien, le philosophe considère que la société
industrielle avancée n'est pas dominée par les sciences,
mais par des groupes sociaux qui contrôlent l'usage de la science.
Or, le but de celle-ci est l'amélioration de la condition humaine;
la science étant détournée et asservie au pouvoir,
la gauche doit viser à sa libération.
Ce document a été diffusé à l'antenne
sous le titre original : Technologie du futur
thanks to Alain Martineau for the link, June 2009
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
1977:Interview with R. Kearney, in: Crane Bag 1:1(1977), 76-85. [UCepub Jan
2016]
1978 interview: published text only: MyriamMiedzian Malinovich,"Herbert
Marcuse in 1978: An Interview," Social
Research48:2 (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).
1968, May: "Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of the New Left,"
interview on/by KCET May 24, 1968. Footage in Herbert's
Hippopotamus, minutes: 5:00, 44:00-46:00
1969, Oct: Herbert Marcuse speech in Sproul
Plaza [sound recording]: University of California, Berkeley,
1969 Oct. 24. 1 sound tape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 5 in.
available from UC Berkeley library
Speech relates to Angela Davis, University of California and students'
roles in society.
Transcript also available.
1970 Film "Obszönität als Gesellschaftskritik?," broadcast Oct.
20, 1970 on German NDR TV, 45 mins, hosted by Thomas Ayck, with Andy Warhol and others (imdb page)
1971 Film: Franz Stark (ed.), Revolution oder
Reform? Herbert Marcuse und Karl Popper: Eine Konfrontation (Munich:
Kösel, 1971), 48 p. with illus.
Complete and expanded text of a TV documentary by Bavarian
Broadcasting (BR)
also ed. by: Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln (Köln:
Dt. Instituts-Verl., 1971)
1977 Film: Marcuse and the Frankfurt School
[videorecording] BBC Worldwide Americas; presented by Janet Hoenig;
directed by Tony Tyler (Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Princeton,
N.J: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003), 1 videodisc (46
min., color)[UCB] (also published in book form, see Books About
page)
"In this program with world-renowned author
and professor Bryan Magee, the philosopher and political theorist
Herbert Marcuse explains how the so-called Frankfurt School reevaluated
Marxism when world economic crisis failed to destroy capitalism
as predicted by Marx. He also analyses the philosophical roots of
the student rebellions of the sixties.
1978 TV broadcast: "Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School", 45
mins.
season 1, episode 3 (Feb. 2, 1978) of a show Men of Ideas hosted by Bryan Magee (imdb page)
[same as previous item]
2002 film: The 25th Hour, by Spike Lee , 135 mins. (imdb page)
Marcuse is played by Aaron Stanford
Has this dialog in the film
script: "You know, Marcuse...
do I come into your bedroom and tell you how to blow
your boyfriend? No."
Based on the 2001 David Benioff novel The 25th Hour ($4 at amazon).
Herbert's
Hippopotamus is a 1 hr. 9 min. documentary video made by UCSD
film student Paul Alexander Juutilainen in 1996. It is a wonderful film
about Herbert's traces at UCSD, with great documentary footage from
the 1960s and 70s and follow-up interviews from the 1990s. One reviewer
wrote: "This Emmy award-winning documentary explores the historical
background for the cultural encounter between European Critical Thinking,
the Third World, Feminist and Anti-war movements, as well as the political
turmoil and institutional pressures in reaction to these coalitions."
NOTE: Many people let me know that they have
trouble viewing this on-line version. There are many potential
bottlenecks:
1. your internet connection isn't fast enough
2. your browser or media playing software isn't advanced enough
3. your computer is too slow to accept the fast data stream
4. the internet or UCLA server is too busy (not enough bandwidth)
The film can be purchased from www.cinemaguild.com (cinemaguild's
H's Hippo page): Gary Crowdus, The Cinema Guild, 130
Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10016-7038, Phone: (212)
685-6242, Fax: (212) 685-4717 (VHS purchase: $295; rental: $95).
The film is available through interlibrary loans from UCSB and
on-campus at UCSD and UCB (search melvyl
by title).
The film is discussed in an article
about resistance against the marines by UC Berkeley political
science graduate student John Brady, published in 1998 in the on-line
journal Bad Subjects.
1984: Der Prozess(directed by Eberhard Fechner [1926-1992], 270 mins.)
German
Film Archive page: "In over eight years of research, Der Prozess
follows the longest criminal proceedings in Germany's legal history - the
"Majdanek Trial". In interviews with judges, the accused, victims
and eye witnesses, and with the use of documentary footage and reports,
the film recounts (in three parts) the legal trials against the workers
and perpetrators of the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp from the first
day to the pronouncement of the judgment."
Prozess
page on Fechner's website: "Eine Darstellung des sogenannten
Majdanek-Verfahrens
gegen Angehörige des Konzentrationslagers Lublin/Majdanek in Düsseldorf
von 1975 bis 1981."
Contains documentary footage of a podium discussion in which Alexander
Mitscherlich talks to Herbert Marcuse about the Nazi "fathers"
in postwar German society
In drei Teilen; Erstsendung am 21. November 1984
1999:
The Insider(directed by Michael
Mann, 157 mins, starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe). Note: screenwriter
Eric Roth, same as for Munich (2005), below.
Based on a true story about a CBS 60 Minutes episode in 1994
on malpractices in the tobacco industry revealed by whistleblower Jeffrey
Wigand, which was not aired because CBS parent company Westinghouse objected
to Lowell Bergman's report.
From popmatters.com
review: "In his best role since Dog Day Afternoon,
Al Pacino plays Lowell Bergman, the 60 Minutes producer who, despite having
done his graduate work with Herbert Marcuse, goes against
the grain of his mentor's critique of modern society. Marcuse's subterranean
presence in the film (he is reverently invoked by Bergman in an early scene)
is significant here because his thesis of repressive tolerance taught,
in part, that bourgeois society grants freedom of speech precisely at the
moment it can no longer make a difference.
...
Given the film's foregone conclusion, it would seem that The Insider
concludes in favor of Lowell Bergman over Herbert Marcuse: the story gets
out, Big Tobacco has to pay, Wigand is vindicated � it is possible to make
a difference from the inside. But in the spirit of Marcuse, one might wonder
why this story makes such good copy for Touchstone Pictures, and why too,
anti-corporate, anti-US government and anti-capitalist media films like
JFK (which argues that Kennedy's assassination was a coup by the
military industrial complex), or Forrest Gump (which argues that
the only way not to recognize US racism and imperialism is by being preternaturally
stupid), or The Matrix (which argues that computers and television
create a media-system that precludes the recognition of the general enslavement
of humankind), all do so well at the box office. Is an awareness of our
own relentless exploitation by corporate America being sold back to us
at a profit?"
has brief documentary footage in which VP Spiro Agnew says
something disparaging about Herbert
2000: Kippur
,
directed by Amos Gitai (Kino, 2000, $30 on DVD, 123 mins.)
about the 1973 Israeli-Arab war, with screenplay co-authored by Marie-Jose
Sanselme.
Oct. 5, 2000 New York Times article: "Mr.
Gitai, himself a veteran of the 1973 war, has apparently followed his own
experiences closely. His hero, Weinraub (Liron Levo), is an earnest young
bohemian who lectures his friend Ruso (Tomer Ruso) on Herbert Marcuse
and, in the opening and closing scenes, smears paint on his girlfriend
while they're making love. The arty eroticism of these sequences stands
in visual and emotional contrast to the rest of the movie, which shows
men writhing in pain and covered in mud."
2005: Munich
,
directed by Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks, 164 mins.)
about what happened after the 1972 hostage-taking at the Munich Olympics.
Early in the film the character Avner, an Israeli secret service agent
charged with tracking down the Palestinian masterminds behind the hostage-taking,
meets up with a couple of people from the West German left-wing scene in
Frankfurt. One of the Germans mentions Marcuse in the
dialog.
Eric Roth was, by the way, a screenwriter for both The Insider
and Munich (as well as Forrest Gump, Horse Whisperer, Ali, ...).
(imdb Eric Roth page)
Dec. 8, 2006: "Marcuse hubdo"
(0:25). A short quotation spoken by Marcuse in French, with a stylized image. By oubdo, a 29 year
old (age given in Aug. 2008) in France. (680 views in Aug. 2008)
Sept. 5, 2007: "Ideologia -
Marcuse" (3:08). A collection of Brazilian product advertisements; at 2:18-2:38 a text
quotation by Herbert on consumption. Looks like it was a powerpoint made by a group of students in a
seminar. Posted by annahoppus, a 17 year old Brazilian. (Aug. 2008: 1387 views)
Dec. 20, 2007: "Growing Activism: People's
History of UC San Diego" (28:37). UCTV broadcast in Nov. 2007. At 7:30-8:20 the leader
of this walking tour across the campus talks about Herbert and Angela Davis. (Aug. 2008: 674 views)
January 10, 2008: "The Essential
Marcuse" (59:37). Oct. 2007 lecture at D.G. Willis Bookstore by Prof.
Andrew Feenberg (profile on Scholar's
page), broadcast on UCSD-TV, about a collection of Herbert's essays that Feenberg
co-edited. Starts with a biographical narrative. (Aug. 2008: 2700 views)
March 28, 2008: "Revolution" (2:59). A collection of
images of revolutions, protest movements and revolutionaries from Rousseau to Angela Davis, with
text quotes and background music & lyrics. Created by MarcuseRebel, a 22 year old Canadian. (54
views in Aug. 2008)
June 14, 2008: "The Office
Revolution" (2:25) uses a clip from Liberation from the Affluent Society as
the narration to a comic series on--an office revolution. Posted by Zigg1es.
July 18, 2008: Marco A. Denegri, "Herbert
Marcuse- Eros y Civilización." Lecture in Spanish by the Peruvian
intellectual/sexologist/sociologist TV show host (Wikipedia Denegri page)
. In four parts: 7:18, 8:06, 7:49 and 1:39. Posted by KrohnosEpsilon, a 38 year
old Peruvian.
July 27, 2008: "Repressive Tolerance" (2:53), by
MochiMC, a 21 year old in the US. He draws on Herbert's concept in his discussion of freedom of
speech and racist, sexist and homophobic speech. (Aug. 2008: 46 views; Aug. 2010: 963 views)
Aug. 25, 2008:Marcuse And One-Dimensional
ManPt. 1 (9:10, 8/10: 6091 views), Pt. 2 (9:10; 1,352 views), Pt. 3 (983 views), Pt. 4 (), Pt. 5 ().
From Rick Roderick -- Self under Siege - Philosophy In The 20th Century. [This version was
uploaded by NohnSvaha; another by chrisltft is available as well)
April 5, 2009: Gespräch mit Herbert Marcuse 1976. Part 1 (9:14; 8/10: 17,614 views); Part 2 (9:50; 3,963 views), Part 3 (9:59, 2765 views), Part 4 (9:14, 2148 views), Part 5 (8:12, 2,243 views) [46:29 total]
Dec. 25, 2009: Herbert Marcuse on the Frankfurt
SchoolSection 1 (8:36;
Aug. 2010: 11,700 views/Feb. 2013 63,400 views); Section 2 (8:55; Aug.
2010: 4,804 views/Feb. 2013 23,100 views); Section 3 (9:47; 3,437
views/Feb. 2013 14,600 views), Section 4
(9:43, 3,068 views/Feb. 2013 12,600 views), Section 5
(7:08, Aug. 2010 4,871
views/Feb. 2013 14,400 views) [44:09 total]
These are from Bryan Magee's TV series "Men of Ideas," which is available in published form
in his book Talking Philosophy (1978; 2001 edition on google
books)(amazon
page), chap. 3, pp. 43-55.
May 4, 2010: Luther Blissett uses a Herbert Marcuse lecture as
audio for his clip Rupture. (Aug. 2010: 295
views) [found through guestbook entry]
1960s-1974: The UCSD
library's collection has quite a few portraits and images of Herbert (278: most are
newspaper clippings). They include 10
"informal" faculty portraits of Herbert in a suit in his office, taken by Gay Crawford
on April 2, 1968. He's sitting (in his office presumably) in a shirt, tie
and jacket. I like no. 8 with the mischevious smile best. A link for permissions
accompanies the photos.
1969, Feb. 25: Marcuse, Herbert, and KFMB (Television Station : San Diego, Calif.).
“Interview with Dr. Herbert Marcuse, February 25, 1969." Interviewed by Harold Keen, 16
leaves, UCSD special collections B945.M2984
I58 1969
1970: “Marcuse on The University Music New Culture Ecology Personal & Social
Liberation Workers The Mideast,” Street Journal, (April 1970)
1971, December 29: "Conversation between the Philosopher Herbert Marcuse and Israel's
Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan," minutes in: Telos 158(Spring 2012),185-191.
The document is from the Israel Defense
Forces and Defense Establishment Archives (IDFA). It has been translated from Hebrew.
"For the diary: A meeting with Herbert Marcuse (at his request) at the Defense
Minister's office. December 29, 1971, 20:00. In attendance: The Minister of Defense;
Shlomo Gazit; Yehuda Elkana of the Van Leer Institute; Naphtali Lavie. (The writing [of
the meeting's minutes] was somewhat delayed, because Marcuse had arrived earlier [than
expected]).
The Minister of Defense: Let's see what happened in 1957. We had a controversy whether2
to evacuate the Shlomo-Straits [Straits of Tiran] back then. Already then…
Accompanying article by Zvi Tauber, "Herbert Marcuse on the Arab-Israeli
Conflict: His Conversation with Moshe Dayan," pp. 171-184 (link to Telos pdf for
subscribers).
1977:Interview with R. Kearney, in: Crane Bag 1:1(1977), 76-85. [UCepub Jan
2016]
1977, March 10: “An Interview with Herbert Marcuse: Thoughts on Judaism, Israel,
etc…,” L’Chayim, IV, 2, (Winter 1977), p. 1. L’Chayim was
published by Jewish students at the University of California San Diego. The interview was
conducted on March 10, 1977 by Marty Gaynor, Ralph Grunewald, and Harlan Simon.
Wiltrud Mannfeld, “Fragen an Herbert Marcuse zu seiner Biographie,”Befreiung
Denken – Ein Politischer Imperativ. Ein Materialenband zu einer politischen Arbeitstagung
über Herbert Marcuse am 13 u. 14 Oktober 1989 in Frankfurt, ed. by Peter-Erwin Jansen.
2nd ed (Offenbach/Main: Verlag 2000 GmbH, 1990), p. 36.
Gespräche mit Herbert Marcuse. Gesprächsteilnehmer: Herbert Marcuse,
Jürgen Habermas, Tilman Spengler, Silvia Bovenschen, Marianne Schuller, Berthold Rothschild,
Theo Pinkus, Erica Sherover, Heinz Lubasz, Alfred Schmidt, Ralf Dahrendorf, Karl Popper, Rudi
Dutschke, Hans Christoph Buch. (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1978)
Herbert's
Hippopotamus is a 1 hr. 9 min. documentary video made by UCSD
film student Paul Alexander Juutilainen in 1996. It is a wonderful film
about Herbert's traces at UCSD, with great documentary footage from
the 1960s and 70s and follow-up interviews from the 1990s. One reviewer
wrote: "This Emmy award-winning documentary explores the historical
background for the cultural encounter between European Critical Thinking,
the Third World, Feminist and Anti-war movements, as well as the political
turmoil and institutional pressures in reaction to these coalitions."