The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 550
Author(s):  
Paul T. Durbin ◽  
Morton Schoolman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Herbert Marcuse

1. The Frankfurt School

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Stephen Eric Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inner Circle

‘The Frankfurt School’ provides a brief history of the formation of the Frankfurt School, and biographies of prominent members. The Frankfurt School grew out of the Institute for Social Research, the first Marxist think tank. However, in 1930, under the directorship of Max Horkheimer, the organization moved to America to escape the Nazis, and began to concentrate on critical theory. Aside from Horkheimer, notable members of the Frankfurt School's inner circle included Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas. Each member of the inner circle was different, but they all shared the same concerns, and attempted to solve them through intellectual daring and experimentation.

Security after emancipation? Critical Theory, violence and resistance

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 1113-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLUMBA PEOPLES
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Current Configuration ◽  
Critical Security Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Normative Foundations

AbstractWithin the current configuration of Critical Security Studies (CSS) the concept of ‘emancipation’ is upheld as the keystone of a commitment to transformative change in world politics, but comparatively little is said on the status of violence and resistance within that commitment. As a means of highlighting this relative silence, this article examines the nature of the connection between CSS and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. In particular it disinters the reflections of Herbert Marcuse on the connections between emancipatory change, violence and resistance as a means of interrogating and challenging the definition of ‘security as emancipation’. Doing so, it is argued, points towards some of the potential limitations of equating security and emancipation, and provides a provocation of contemporary CSS from within its own cited intellectual and normative foundations.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Stephen Eric Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Critical Method ◽  
The Many ◽  
Many Sources

Interdisciplinary and uniquely experimental in character, deeply skeptical of tradition and all absolute claims, critical theory was always concerned not merely with how things were, but how they might be and should be. This ethical imperative led its primary thinkers to develop a cluster of themes and a new critical method that transformed our understanding of society. The Introduction describes some of the many sources of critical theory, including Immanuel Kant, Hegel, Karl Marx, Karl Korsch, Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, and Max Horkheimer. The two ideas most commonly associated with critical theory are alienation and reification.

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