Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse- Marcuse, Herbert. “Liberation from the Affluent Society.” July 27th 2016 The more money you make, the more likely you are to spend more. For us to be able to survive in our modern society we are enslaved to working every day to survive or live a certain lifestyle. The debate for the need to raise the middle class always seems to forget the lower class, for every election in North America we hear politicians argue about strengthening the middle class. Can a society have a…

This essay will discuss the major features and debates around the Marxist approach to society, where society is based upon conflict between groups, such as the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ (Sociology Central, 2005). It will do this by going into details of Marxism and criticism from the 1930’s to the 1980’s. This will include, but is not limited to the theory of hegemony by Gramsci; Dunayevskaya’s discovery of state capitalism in the Soviet Union; Baran and Sweezy on monopoly capitalism and…

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French Philosopher, novelist and literary critic. He was born on the 21st of June, 1905. During his life, he was one of the important figures in the philosophy of existentialism and also one of the prominent individuals in the 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy which is basically centred on the analysis of existence, freedom and choice. It is the understanding that humans define their purpose in life and try to make…

Thus, networks of power are also sites of resistance. Stoddart (2007) argues that the Frankfurt school including Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, elaborated on Marx's notion of ideology and gave it more dimensions. Although culture products and various media forms were available in the 20th century to masses, they represented the capitalist ideologies of the ruling class, making the working…

according to the structures of mass production and thus it has made the technology of the culture industry no more than the achievement of the standardization and mass production, providing powerful instruments of social control and domination. As Marcuses say: “The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood….it becomes a way of…

Politics is the study of how people make decisions in a group and by what means this is achieved. Some political scientists see politics in the same light as one would see a natural science, due to observable and measurable features when conducting research. Many theorists throughout history periods have tried to quantify and explain relationships with each other. This essay will argue that politics is can be to make scientific statements. This can be illustrated through the following,…

Distorted Beauty Entering high school is a point in life when most teenagers begin to spend extra time looking in the mirror and noticing the little things about themselves. Everyday beginning my freshman year, I would walk the overcrowded halls of William Chrisman and as I would look around I’d see all these pretty, skinny girls and I became suddenly aware of my size and looks. I have always played sports and I am constantly gaining weight because of muscle mass and I always sport my athletic…

Angela Davis: An Autobiography Better known as a prominent figure in the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis is a well known radical leftist and a member of the Communist Party USA. She was a professor at UCLA, which then California Governor Ronald Regan urged the Board of Regents of the University of California to fire her for her Communist affiliations. However, she fought them in court and it was ruled the Regents could not fire Davis solely because of her affiliations with the Communist Party.…

Sean Scannell
Dr. Josna Rege
Methods of Literary Studies Marxist Literary Theory Marxist Literary Theory “Concerns itself with class differences, economic and otherwise, as well as the implication and complications of the capitalist system: “Marxism attempts to reveal the ways in which our socioeconomic system is the ultimate source of our experience” (Owl at Purdue) Stemming from Marx’s ideology of the material dialectic, or economic determinism, Marx says that the driving forces of production…

A treatise on liberty and freedom of speech, John Stuart Mill’s 1859 book On Liberty employs philosophical thought to discuss the importance of liberty and when it is or is not right and proper for a government to limit it. In discussing liberty, Mill propositions the “harm principle,” a concept used throughout On Liberty to assess what rights and liberties mankind has, and when they ought to and ought not be curtailed by either the government or societal majorities, with which Mill is more…