Beacon press jun 1971 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer content itself with repeating the formula, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,' but must now investigate the nature of human needs themselves. Marcuse's claim is that even if production were controlled and determined by the workers, society would still be repressive-unless the workers themselves had the needs and aspirations of free men. Ranging from philosophical anthropology to aesthetics An Essay on Liberation attempts to outline-in a highly speculative and tentative fashion-the new possibilities for human liberation. The Essay contains the following chapters: A Biological Foundation for Socialism , The New Sensibility, Subverting Forces-in Transition, and Solidarity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of 'praiseworthy space' conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which 'poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness'. …