The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1898–1970

Herbert Marcuse

Ideas, American teaching and the students who used and challenged them

Chronology

1898–1970

189819341970
11 dated events
  1. Marcuse is born in Berlin Reported · Source 3, On the Authors, p. xxii; PDF p. 22
  2. Marcuse joins the Institute in New York Reported · Source 4, pp. 146–147; PDF pp. 308–309
  3. OSS report proposes dissolving Nazi organizations Documented · Source 3, Report 16, pp. 253–254; PDF pp. 277–278
  4. Marcuse begins teaching at Brandeis Reported · Source 3, On the Authors, p. xxiii; PDF p. 23
  5. Eros and Civilization is published Reported · Source 3, On the Authors, p. xxiii; PDF p. 23 (1955 United States publication)
  6. One-Dimensional Man is published Reported · Source 1, Copyright page and original-publication line
  7. Marcuse moves from Brandeis to UC San Diego Reported · Source 3, On the Authors, p. xxiii; PDF p. 23
  8. Repressive Tolerance is published Reported · Source 6, Original-publication copyright; 1969 paperback, fifth printing 1970
  9. Davis resumes study with Marcuse Reported · Source 7, Davis preface, p. xi; PDF p. 12
  10. Marcuse’s New Left interview appears in the New York Times Magazine Reported · Source 7, p. 100, n. 1; PDF p. 115
  11. Radical America publishes Aronson’s assessment of Marcuse Documented · Source 2, Contents and Dear Herbert, pp. 3–5; PDF pp. 2, 5–7

Sources

Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.

  1. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Herbert Marcuse.
    Sources

    Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964; inspected Routledge Classics edition, 2002, later printing). Primary text; pp. 3–8. Additional claims in this dossier were checked in printed pp. 7–9, PDF pp. 56–58 of the inspected Routledge Classics edition.

  2. Radical America, volume 4, number 3, April 1970 Ronald Aronson, Martin Jay, Paul Breines and other contributors.
    Sources

    Original issue preserved by Brown University Library. Contents on PDF p. 2. Aronson, Dear Herbert, pp. 3–5 inspected; Jay, Marcuse’s Utopia, pp. 21–22; Breines, Notes on Marcuse and the Movement, pp. 29–30. Scanned pages checked visually. No claim that all contributors or readers shared one view. Brown reproduction permission remains separate from citation.

  3. Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse and Otto Kirchheimer; editor Raffaele Laudani.
    Sources

    Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse and Otto Kirchheimer, Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, edited by Raffaele Laudani (Princeton University Press, 2013). Wartime reports. The editor identifies their authors. “Notes on the Texts,” pp. xvii–xix; report 16, pp. 253–254, July 22, 1944, R&A 1655.5. The editor uses archive records to identify the writer. The original report was unsigned. The report alone cannot show which advice officials followed.

  4. The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance Rolf Wiggershaus.
    Sources

    Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance, translated by Michael Robertson (MIT Press, 1994; inspected third paperback printing, 1998). A historian's account. Printed page numbers verified in the archive PDF, whose printed pages often occupy two PDF pages.

  5. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud Herbert Marcuse.
    Sources

    Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (inspected Routledge edition, 1998 reissue with Douglas Kellner's preface; digital edition 2005). Primary text. Chapter 2, paragraphs defining surplus repression and the performance principle, archive PDF pp. 30–31. These are PDF locators, not verified printed-page numbers.

  6. Repressive Tolerance Herbert Marcuse.
    Sources

    Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance” (1965), in Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr. and Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Beacon paperback, 1969; inspected fifth printing, December 1970), pp. 81–117. The author's argument about what should be done. Original-page scan hosted by the Marcuse family: original-page scan . The 1968 postscript is separate. Cited pp. 109–111 correspond to scan pages 19–20.

  7. The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 3 Herbert Marcuse; editor Douglas Kellner; preface Angela Y. Davis.
    Sources

    Herbert Marcuse, The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, vol. 3, edited by Douglas Kellner (Routledge, first print publication 2005; ebook copyright 2004). Angela Y. Davis's preface, pp. vii–xiv, is her own account, written years later. “Marcuse Defines His New Left Line,” pp. 100–104 cited here, is a translated 1968 interview, originally in Express, then New York Times Magazine, October 27, 1968; translator not identified in the inspected editorial note.

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