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Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin. Marcuse's critical social theory ingeniously fuses phenomenology, Freudian thought and Marxist theory; and provides a solid ground for his reputation as the most crucial figure inspiring the social activism and New Left politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The largely unpublished work collected in this volume makes clear the continuing relevance of Marcuse's thought to contemporary issues. The texts published here, dealing with concerns during the period 1942-1951, exhibit penetrating critiques of technology and analyses of the ways that modern technology produces novel forms of society and culture with new modes of social control. The material collected in <EM>Technology, War and Facism provides exemplary attempts to link theory with practice, to develop ideas that can be used to grasp and transform existing social reality. <EM>Technology, War and Fascism is the first of six volumes of Herbert Marcuse's Collected Papers to be edited by Douglas Kellner. Each volume is a collection of previously un-published or uncollected essays, unfinished manuscripts and letters by one of the greatest thinkers of our time.
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TECHNOLOGY, WAR AND FASCISM
COLLECTED PAPERS OF HERBERT MARCUSE EDITED BY DOUGLAS KELLNER
Volume One TECHNOLOGY, WAR AND FASCISM
Volume Two TOWARDS A CRITICAL THEORY OF SOCIETY
Volume Three FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEW LEFT
Volume Four ART AND LIBERATION
Volume Five PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND EMANCIPATION
Volume Six MARXISM, REVOLUTION AND UTOPIA
TECHNOLOGY, WAR AND FASCISM HERBERT MARCUSE
COLLECTED PAPERS OF HERBERT MARCUSE Volume One
Edited by Douglas Kellner
London and New York
First published 1998 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1998 Peter Marcuse Introduction © 1998 Douglas Kellner All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Marcuse, Herbert, 1898– Technology, war, and fascism/Herbert Marcuse; edited by Douglas Kellner. (Collected papers of Herbert Marcuse; v. 1) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Technology—Philosophy. 2. War (Philosophy) 3. Fascism. 4. National socialism—Germany. 5. Political science—Philosophy. I. Kellner, Douglas. II. Title. III. Series: Marcuse, Herbert, 1898– Collected papers of Herbert Marcuse; v. 1 B945.M2983T43 1988 [T14] 191–dc21 97–14885 ISBN 0-203-20831-5 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-26690-0 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-13780-2 (Print Edition)
In remembrance of the victims of fascism
CONTENTS
Foreword ix
PETER MARCUSE
Preface The Unknown Marcuse: New Archival Discoveries DOUGLAS KELLNER
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction Technology, War and Fascism: Marcuse in the 1940s 1
DOUGLAS KELLNER
I
Some Social Implications of Modern Technology
39
II
State and Individual Under National Socialism Supplement
67 89
III
A History of the Doctrine of Social Change HERBERT MARCUSE AND FRANZ NEUMANN