The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1964–1970

University of California, San Diego

Philosophical teaching and conflict over a new college

Chronology

1964–1970

196419671970
6 dated events
  1. Löwenthal recommends Marcuse to UCSD Documented · Source 1, pp. 210–211
  2. UCSD Hegel seminar Documented · Source 2, Introductory note, pp. 1–2
  3. Davis resumes study with Marcuse at UCSD Documented · Source 3, Davis preface, p. xi
  4. UCSD department defends Marcuse and announces prize Documented · Source 3, pp. 119–120; date in editor’s footnote 2
  5. College plan approved in principle, according to institutional history Reported · Source 5, p. 3
  6. Third College Fall 1970 program reported Reported · Source 5, p. 4

Close reading and social change

Leiss describes a twenty-week graduate seminar on Hegel's Science of Logic. It met for three hours each week in Fall 1966 and Winter 1967. He recalled a slow, close reading of the text, with no special focus on Marcuse 's own books. The seminar record helps explain the careful philosophical training behind the campus's better-known political activity. (pp.1–2) [2]

A different kind of college

The student coalition proposed a college serving Black, Chicano and white working-class students. Davis described this goal. (opening college discussion) [4]

The university's history lists demands about revolution, admissions, student power and community recruitment. (pp.2–3) [5]