Herbert Marcuse:
Writings and Readings

by

Theresa M. Mackey
Northern Virginia Community College

archived by Harold Marcuse
(Harold Marcuse homepage)

part of the Official Herbert Marcuse website,
created July 7, 2005; updated

BOOKS    (back to top)

• Hegels Ontologie und die Grundlegung einer Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1932), translated by Seyla Benhabib as Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987).
• Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1941; enlarged edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954; New York: Humanities Press, 1954 [i.e. 1955]).
• Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (Boston: Beacon, 1955; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1956).
• Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958).
• One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Society (Boston: Beacon, 1964; London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964).
• Kultur und Gesellschaft, 2 volumes (Frankfurt am Main: Surhkamp, 1965).
• A Critique of Pure Tolerance, by Marcuse, Robert Paul Wolff, and Barrington Moore Jr. (Boston: Beacon, 1965; London: Cape, 1969)--includes "Repressive Tolerance," by Marcuse.
• Das Ende der Utopie: Herbert Marcuse diskutiert mit Studenten und Professoren Westberlins an der Freien Universität Berlin über die Möglichkeiten und Chancen einer politischen Opposition in den Metropolen in Zusammenhang mit den Befreiungsbewegungen in den Ländern der Dritten Welt, edited by Horst Kurnitzky and Hansmartin Kuhn (Berlin: Maikowski, 1967).
• Negations: Essays in Critical Theory, translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro (Boston: Beacon, 1968; London: Allen Lane, 1968)-- includes "The Struggle against Liberalism in the Totalitarian View of the State," and "The Affirmative Character of Culture".
• Psychoanalyse und Politik (Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1968).
• An Essay on Liberation (Boston: Beacon, 1969; London: Allen Lane, 1969).
• Five Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia, translated by Shapiro and Sherry M. Weber (Boston: Beacon, 1970; London: Allen Lane, 1970)--includes translations from Psychoanalyse und Politik;
• Israel is Strong Enough to Peacefully Co-exist with Arabs (New York: Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East, 1971).
• Revolution oder Reform? Herbert Marcuse und Karl Popper: Eine Konfrontation, by Marcuse and Karl Popper, edited by Franz Stark (Munich: Kösel-Verlag, 1971); translated by Michael Aylward and A. T. Ferguson as Revolution or Reform? edited by Ferguson, introduction by Frederic L. Bender (Chicago: New University Press, 1976).
• Counterrevolution and Revolt (London: Allen Lane, 1972; Boston: Beacon, 1972).
• Existentialistische Marx-Interpretation, by Marcuse and Alfred Schmidt (Frankfurt am Main: Europaische Verlagsanstalt, 1973).
• Zeit-Messungen: Drei Vortrage und ein Interview (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1975).
• Die Permanenz der Kunst: Wider einer bestimmte marxistishe Ästhetik (Munich & Vienna: Hanser, 1977); revised and translated by Marcuse and Erica Sherover as The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Boston: Beacon, 1978; London: Macmillan, 1979).
• Schriften: Herbert Marcuse, 9 volumes (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1978-1989)--comprises volume 1, Der deutsche Künstlerroman; Frühe Aufsätze (1978); volume 2, Hegels Ontologie und die Theorie der Geschichtlichkeit (1989); volume 3, Aufsätze aus der Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 1934-1941 (1979); volume 4, Vernunft und Revolution: Hegel und die Entstehung der Gesellschaftstheorie, translated by Schmidt (1989); volume 5, Triebstruktur und Gesellschaft: Ein philosophischer Beitrag zu Sigmund Freud, translated by Marianne von Eckhardt-Jaffe (1979); volume 6, Die Gesellschaftslehre des sowjetischen Marxismus, translated by Schmidt (1989); volume 7, Der eindimensionale Mensch: Studien zur Ideologie der fortgeschrittenen Industriegesellschaft, translated by Schmidt (1989); volume 8, Aufsätze und Vorlesungen, 1948-1969; Versuch über die Befreiung (1984); and volume 9, Konterrevolution und Revolte; Zeit-Messungen; Die Permanenz der Kunst (1987).
• Studentenbewegung: Und was danach? by Marcuse and others, Argument Studienhefte, no. 30 (Berlin: Argument-Verlag, 1979).
• Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, edited by Douglas Kellner (London & New York: Routledge, 1998-)-- includes volume 1, Technology, War and Fascism (1998); and volume 2, Towards a Critical Theory of Society (2001).
• Nachgelassene Schriften Herbert Marcuse (Lüneburg: Zu Klampen, 1999-)--includes volume 1, Das Schicksal der bürgerlichen Demokratie (1999); and volume 2, Kunst und Befreiung (2000).

Editions in English     (back to top)

• Studies in Critical Philosophy, translated by Joris De Bres (London: New Left Books, 1972; Boston: Beacon, 1973)--includes "The Foundation of Historical Materialism," "A Study on Authority," "Sartre's Existentialism," "Karl Popper and the Problem of Historical Laws," and "Freedom and the Historical Imperative."

OTHER WRITINGS     (back to top)

• Das Dreieck: Monatzeitschrift für Philosophie, Dichtung, und Kritik, edited by Marcuse and Walter Gutkelch (Berlin, April 1924 - March 1925).
• Schiller-Bibliographie: Unter Benutzung der Trömelschen Schiller-Bibliothek, compiled, and annotated, by Marcuse (Berlin: S. Martin Fraenkel, 1925).
• "Anti-Democratic Popular Movements," in Germany and the Future of Europe, edited by Hans Joachim Morganthau (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), pp. 108-113.
• "Dialectic and Logic Since the War," in Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought, edited by Ernest J. Simmons (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955), pp. 347-358.
• Franz Neumann, The Democratic and Authoritarian State, preface by Marcuse (New York: Free Press, 1957).
• Raya Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom from 1776 until Today, preface by Marcuse (New York: Bookman Associates, 1958).
• "Zur Stellung des Denkens heute," in Zeugnisse: Theodor W. Adorno zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, edited by Max Horkheimer (Frankfurt am Main: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1963), pp. 45-49.
• Walter Benjamin, Zur Kritik de Gewalt und andere Aufsätze, afterword by Marcuse (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1965).
• "Remarks on a Redefinition of Culture," in Science and Culture, edited by Gerald Holton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), pp. 218-223.
• Karl Marx, Der 18. Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte, afterword by Marcuse (Frankfurt: Insel, 1965), pp. 143-150; Marcuse's afterword translated as "Epilogue to the New German Edition of Marx's 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte," in Radical America (Cambridge, 1969), pp. 55-59.
• "Socialist Humanism," in Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium, edited by Erich Fromm (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965), pp. 107-117.
• "On Science and Phenomenology," in Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science (1962-1964): Proceedings, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, volume 2 (New York: Humanities Press, 1965), pp. 279-291.
• "Ethics and Revolution," in Ethics and Society: Original Essays on Contemporary Moral Problems, edited by R. T. de George (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1966), pp. 133-147.
• "The Inner Logic of American Policy in Vietnam," in Teach-Ins, USA: Reports, Opinions, Documents, edited by Louis Menashe and Ronald Radosh (New York: Praeger, 1967), pp. 65-67.
• "The Obsolescence of Marxism?" in Marx and the Western World, edited by Nikolaus Lobkowicz (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1967), pp. 409-417.
• "Thoughts on the Defense of Gracchus Babeuf," in The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendôme, by François Noël Babeuf, edited and translated by John Anthony Scott (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1967), pp. 96- 105.
• "The Responsibility of Science," in The Responsibility of Power: Historical Essays in Honor of Hajo Holborn, edited by Leonard Krieger and Fritz Stern (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967), pp. 439-444.
• "Liberation from the Affluent Society," in The Dialectics of Liberation, edited by David Cooper (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1968), pp. 175-192.
• "Re-examination of the Concept of Revolution," in Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought: Marx et la pensée scientifique contemporaine (The Hague: Mouton, 1969).
• "On the New Left," in The New Left: A Documentary History, edited by Massimor Teodori (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969), pp. 468-473.
• "Art as a Form of Reality," in On the Future of Art: Essays by Arnold Toynbee and Others, introduction by Edward F. Fry (New York: Viking, 1970), pp. 123-134.
• "Marxism and the New Humanity: An Unfinished Revolution," in Marxism and Radical Religion: Essays Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, edited by John C. Raines and Thomas Dean (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1970), pp. 3-10.
• "Charles Reich as Revolutionary Ostrich," in The Con III Controversy: The Critics Look at The Greening of America, edited by Philip Nobile (New York: Pocket Books, 1971), pp. 15-17.
• Leo Lowenthal and Norman Gutermann, Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator, foreword by Marcuse (Palo Alto, Cal.: Pacific Books, 1970).
• "Reflexion zu Theodor Adorno--Aus einem Gespräch mit Michaela Seife," in Theodor W. Adorno zum Gedächtnis, edited by Herman Schweppenhäuser (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1971), pp. 47- 51.
• "Art in the One-Dimensional Society," in Radical Perspectives in the Arts, edited by Lee Baxandall (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1972), pp. 53-67.
• "A Revolution in Values," in Political Ideologies, edited by James A. Gould and Willis H. Truitt (New York: Macmillan, 1973), pp. 331-336.
• "Enttäuschung," in Erinnerung an Martin Heidegger, edited by Gunther Neske (Pfullingen: Neske, 1977), pp. 162-163.
• "Protosozialismus und Spätkapitalismus. Versuch einer Revolutionstheoretischen Synthese von Bahros Ansatz," Kritik, 19 (Berlin, 1979): 5-27; translated as "Protosocialism and Late Capitalism: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis Based on Bahro's Analysis" in Rudolf Bahro: Critical Responses, edited by Ulf Wolter (White Plains, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1980), pp. 25-48.

SELECTED PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS--UNCOLLECTED (back to top)

• "Beiträge zu einer Phänomenologie des historischen Materialismus," Philosophische Hefte, l (July 1928): 45-68; translated as "Contributions to a Phenomenology of Historical Materialism," Telos, 4 (Fall 1969): 3-34.
• "Über konkrete Philosophie," Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, 62 (1929): 111-120.
• "Besprechung von Karl Vorländer: Karl Marx, sein Leben und sein Werk," and "Zur Wahrheitsproblematik der sozialogischen Methode: Karl Mannheim, Die Ideologie und Utopie," Gesellschaft, 6, no. 2 (1929): 186-189, 356-369.
• "Zum Problem der Dialektic I," Die Gesellschaft, 7, no. 1 (1930): 15-30; translated by Morton Schoolman as "On the Problem of the Dialectic," Telos, 27 (Spring 1976): 12-24.
• "Transzendentaler Marxismus?" Die Gesellschaft, 7, no. 1 (1930): 304-326.
• "Besprechung von H. Noack: Geschichte und Systeme der Philosophie," Philosophische Hefte, 2 (1930): 91-96.
• "Das Problem der geschichtlichen Wirklichkeit: Wilhelm Dilthey," Die Gesellschaft, l (1931): 350-367.
• "Zur Kritik der Soziologie," Die Gesellschaft, 8, no. 2 (1931): 270-280.
• "Zum Problem der Dialektik II," Die Gesellschaft, 8, no. 2 (1931): 541-557; translated by Duncan Smith as "On the Problem of the Dialectic," Telos, 27 (Spring 1976): 24-39.
• "Zur Auseinandersetzung mit Hans Freyers Soziologie als Wirklichkeitswissenschaft," Philosophie Hefte, 3, nos. 1 and 2 (1931): 83-91.
• "Besprechung von Heinz Heimsoeth: Die Errungenschaften des deutschen Idealismus," Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 53, no. 43 (1932): 2024-2029.
• "Uber die philosophischen Grundlagen des wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Arbeitsbegriff," Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, 69, no. 3 (1933): 257- 292; translated by Douglas Kellner as "On the Philosophical Foundation of the Concept of Labor in Economics," Telos, 16 (Summer 1973): 9-37.
• "Philosophie des Scheiterns: Karl Jaspers Werk," Unterhaltungsblatt der Vossischen Zeitung, 339 (14 December 1933).
• "Besprechung von Herbert Wacker: Das Verhältnis des jungen Hegel zu Kant," Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 55, no. 14 (1934): 629-630.
• "An Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy," Studies in Philosophy and Social Science, 8, no. 3 (1940): 394-412.
• "A Rejoinder to Karl Löwith's review of Reason and Revolution," Journal of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2, no. 4 (1941-1942): 564-565.
• "Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre's L'etre et le néant," Journal of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 8, no. 3 (1948): 309-336.
• "Lord Acton: Essays on Freedom and Power," American Historical Review, 54, no. 3 (1949): 447-449.
• "Review of Georg Lukác's Goethe und seine Zeit," Journal of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 11 (1949): 142-144.
• "Recent Literature on Communism," World Politics, 6, no. 4 (July 1954): 515-525.
• "Eros and Culture," I.E.: The Cambridge Review, 1, no. 3 (1955): 107-112.
• "The Social Implications of Freudian 'Revisionism,'" Dissent, 2, no. 3 (Summer 1955): 221-240.
• "A Reply to Erich Fromm," Dissent, 3, no. 1 (1956): 79- 81.
• "La théorie des instincts et la socialisation," La Table Ronde, 108 (1956): 97-110.
• "Theory and Therapy in Freud," Nation (28 September 1957): 200-202.
• "The Indictment of Western Philosophy in Freud's Theory," Journal of Philosophy, 54, no. 6 (March 1957): 154-155.
• "Soviet Theory and Practice," Partisan Review, 26, no. 1 (Winter 1959): 157-158.
• "De l'ontologie à la technologie: les tendences de la société industrielle," Arguments, 4, no. 18 (1960): 54-59.
• "Language and Technological Society," Dissent, 8, no. 1 (Winter 1961): 66-74.
• "Idéologie et société industrielle avancée," Mediations, 5 (Summer 1962): 57-71.
• "Emanzipation der Frau in der repressiven Gesellschaft: Ein Gespräch mit Herbert Marcuse und Peter Furth," Das Argument, 23 (October-November 1962): 2-12.
• "Dynamismes de la société industrielle," Annales: Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations, 18 (1963): 906-933.
• "World Without Logos," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 20 (January 1964): 25-26.
• "Perspektiven des Sozialismus in der entwickelten Industriegesellschaft," Praxis, l, nos. 2 and 3 (1965), 260-270; translated as "Socialism in the Developed Countries," International Socialist Journal, 2 (April 1965): 139-152.
• "A Tribute to Paul A. Baran," Monthly Review, 16 (March 1965): 114-115.
• "Der Einfluss der deutschen Emigration auf das amerikanische Geistesleben: Philosophie und Soziologie," Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, 10 (1965): 27-33.
• "Comes the Revolution: Reply to M. Berman's review of One-Dimensional Man," Partisan Review, 32 (Winter 1965): 159-160.
• "Statement on Vietnam," Partisan Review, 32 (Fall 1965): 646-649.
• "Einige Streitfragen," Praxis, 1, nos. 2 and 3 (1965): 372-379.
• "Sommes-nous-déjà des hommes?" Partisans, 28 (April 1966): 21-29.
• "Vietnam: Analyse eines Exemples," Neue Kritik, 36/37 (June-August 1966): 30-40.
• "Zur Geschichte der Dialektik," Sowjetsystem und Demokratische Gesellschaft, 1 (1966): 1192-1211.
• "Ziele, Formen und Aussichten der Studentopposition," Das Argument, (1967): 398-408.
• "Zum Begriff der Negation in der Dialektik," Filosoficky casopis, 15, no. 3 (1967): 375-379; translated by Karl Bogere as "The concept of Negation in the Dialectic," Telos, 8 (Summer 1971): 130-132.
• "On Changing the World: A Reply to Karl Miller," Monthly Review, 19 (October 1967): 42-48.
• "Die Gesellschaft als Kuntswerk," Neues Forum, 14 (November/December 1967): 863-866.
• "Ist die Idee der Revolution eine Mystifikation?" Kursbuch, 9 (1967): 1-6; translated as "The Question of Revolution," New Left Review, 45 (1967): 3-7.
• "The Paris Rebellion," Peace News (28 June 1968): 6-7.
• "Friede als Utopie," Neues Forum, 15 (November- December 1968): 705-707.
• "The Realm of Freedom and the Realm of Necessity: A Reconsideration," Praxis, 5, nos. 1 and 2 (1969): 20-25.
• "Revolutionary Subject and Self-Government," Praxis, 5, nos. 1 and 2 (1969): 326-327.
• "The Relevance of Reality," Presidential Address at annual meeting of American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, in Proceedings and Addresses of the APA (1969): 39-50.
• "Nicht einfach zerstören," Neues Forum, 16 (August- September 1969): 485-488.
• "Student Protest is Non-violent Next to Society Itself," New York Times Magazine (4 May 1969): 137.
• "Only a Free Arab World Can Co-exist with a Free Israel," Israel Horizons (June-July 1970): 17.
• "Humanismus--gibt's den noch?" Neues Forum, 17 (April 1970): 349-353.
• "Dear Angela," Ramparts, 9 (February 1971): 22.
• "The Movement in a New Era of Repression: An Assessment," Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 16 (1971-1972): 1-14.
• "A Reply to Lucien Goldmann," Partisan Review, 38 (Winter 1971-1972): 397-400.
• "Art and Revolution," Partisan Review, 39 (Spring 1972): 174-187.
• "When Law and Morality Stand in the Way," Society, 10 (September-October 1973): 23-24.
• "Marxism and Feminism," Women's Studies, 2, no. 3 (1974): 279-288.
• "Un nouvel ordre," Le Monde Diplomatique, 268 (June 1976).
• "Mord darf keine Waffen der Politik sein," Die Zeit, 39 (23 September 1977): 41-42; translated as "Murder is Not a Political Weapon," New German Critique, 12 (Fall 1977): 7-8.
• "Failure of the New Left," New German Critique, 18 (Fall 1979): 3-11.
• "The Reification of the Proletariat," Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 3 (Winter 1979): 20-23.

Interviews:  (back to top)

• Hans Eckehard Bahr and H. J. Benedict, "Herbert Marcuse und die prophetische Tradition," in Weltfrieden und Revolution: Neun politisch-theologische Analysen, edited by Bahr (Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1968), pp. 291-307.
• Robert McKenzie, "The Father of the Student Rebellion?" Listener (17 October 1968): 498-499.
• "Marcuse Defends His New Left Line," New York Times Magazine (27 October 1968): 298-299.
• "A Conversation with Herbert Marcuse," Psychology Today, 4 (February 1971): 35-40, 60-66.
• "Heidegger's Politics: An Interview with Herbert Marcuse by Frederick Olafson," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 6 (Winter 1977).
• Bryan Magee, "Marcuse and the Frankfurt School," in Magee's Men of Ideas: Some Creators of Contemporary Philosophy (London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1978), pp. 60-73.

Biography: (back to top)

• Barry Katz, Herbert Marcuse and the Art of Liberation: An Intellectual Biography (London: Verso, 1982).

References:  (back to top)

• Ben Agger, The Discourse of Domination: From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1992).
• C. Fred Alford, Science and the Revenge of Nature: Marcuse and Habermas (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1985).
• Joan Alway, Critical Theory and Political Possibilities: Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995).
• George Friedman, The Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School (Ithaca, N.Y. & London: Cornell University Press, 1981).
• Douglas Kellner, Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).
• Peter Lind, Marcuse and Freedom (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985).
• Sidney Lipshires, Herbert Marcuse: From Marx to Freud to Beyond (Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1974).
• Alasdair MacIntyre, "Histories of Moral Philosophy," in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 356-360.
• Robert Pippin, Andrew Feenberg, and Charles P. Webe, eds., Marcuse: Critical Theory & the Promise of Utopia (South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Garvey, 1988; Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan, 1988).
• Ronald Roblin, ed., The Aesthetics of the Critical Theorists: Studies on Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).
• Morton Schoolman, The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (New York: Free Press / London: Collier Macmillan, 1980).
• Kurt Wolff and Barrington Moore. Jr., eds., The Critical Spirit: Essays in Honor of Herbert Marcuse (Boston: Beacon, 1967).