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

Teaching and political conflict in La Jolla

UC San Diego was another American teaching base for Herbert Marcuse . A March 31,1964 letter from Leo Löwenthal shows the philosophy department seeking advice about bringing him onto the faculty. Student William Leiss's record documents a Marcuse graduate seminar in 1966–67. (pp.210–211) [1] (pp.1–2) [2]

Angela Davis returned from Frankfurt in 1967 to study with him. The campus also faced conflict over radical teaching. (p.xi) [3] (pp.119–120) [3]

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