Dialectical tensions

Marcuse, Dunayevskaya and the problems of the age

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4480958
AutoresDamian Gerber (The University of Queensland, autor de correspondencia), Shannon Brincat (0000-0002-1426-5793, Griffith University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen134
Número1
Páginas107-121
Fecha de publicación2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513616647564
OpenAlexW2429905781
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas6

There has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Raya Dunayevskaya and Herbert Marcuse, particularly regarding their shared concern with humanism and dialectics. Recent edited collections on Dunayevskaya's correspondence have, however, drawn a sharp contrast between the conceptions of the dialectical method: Dunayesvkaya, who emphasized the need for 'philosophic new beginnings' to offer a new relationship between theory and practice, and Herbert Marcuse who, despite his piercing identification of the one-dimensionality of late capitalism, continued with a problematic basis in (orthodox) Marxist categories. In this review essay, we outline the latest of these two volumes and its distinct contributions before engaging in a critique of Marcuse's restrictions on humanism and dialectics, via a comparison with Dunayevskaya's dialectical approach that was premised on questioning 'the problems of the age' and emphasized the open and negative polarity of dialectical possibilities

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