An Essay on Liberation

An Essay on Liberation
	Cover of the first edition
Author	Herbert Marcuse
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Industrial society
Publisher	Beacon Press
Publication date	1969
Media type	Print
Pages	91
ISBN	0-8070-0595-9

An Essay on Liberation is a 1969 book by the Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

Summary

Marcuse argues that advanced industrial society has rendered the traditional conception of human freedom obsolete, and outlines new possibilities for contemporary human liberation.

Reception

Brian Easlea writes that Marcuse, having in the past been attacked by Marxists for his "quite unambiguous indictment of science and perhaps feeling that he had directed too much attention away from the rulers of advanced industrial society", apparently "reversed direction" in An Essay on Liberation by endorsing science and technology as "great vehicles of liberation".^[1]

Bibliography

Versuch über die Befreiung. Übersetzt von Helmut Reinicke und Alfred Schmidt. Suhrkamp. 1969. (reprint: Suhrkamp 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41987-8)

References

↑ Easlea, Brian (1981). Science and Sexual Oppression: Patriarchy's Confrontation with Woman and Nature. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 25. ISBN 0 297 77894 3.

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[1] Easlea, Brian (1981). Science and Sexual Oppression: Patriarchy's Confrontation with Woman and Nature. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 25. ISBN 0 297 77894 3.