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The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954-1978

Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory
Studies in Marxism and Humanism

von: Kevin B. Anderson, Russell Rockwell
52,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	13.04.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9780739168370
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	330

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Titelbeschreibung

This book presents for the first time the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and two other noted thinkers, the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist and social critic Erich Fromm (1900-80), both of the latter members of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. In their introduction, editors Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell focus on the theoretical and political dialogues in these letters, which cover topics such as dialectical social theory, Marxist economics, socialist humanism, the structure and contradictions of modern capitalism, the history of Marxism and of the Frankfurt School, feminism and revolution, developments in the USSR, Cuba, and China, and emergence of the New Left of the 1960s. The editors’ extensive explanatory notes offer helpful background information, definitions of theoretical concepts, and source references. Among the thinkers discussed in the correspondence – some of them quite critically-- are Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, V. I. Lenin, Nikolai Bukharin, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Daniel Bell, and Seymour Martin Lipset. As a whole, this volume shows the deeply Marxist and humanist concerns of these thinkers, each of whom had a lifelong concern with rethinking Marx and Hegel as the foundation for an analysis of capitalist modernity and its forces of opposition.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This volume contains the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist and social critic Erich Fromm (1900-80). The exchanges show the deeply Marxist and humanist concerns of these theorists while also highlighting their significant differences on key issues in philosophy, politics, and psychology during the turbulent decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Editors’ Introduction Note on Sources Abbreviations The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Correspondence, 1954-78 The Dunayevskaya-Fromm Correspondence, 1959-78 Appendix Marcuse’s Preface to Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom Dunayevskaya’s Review of Marcuse’s Soviet Marxism Dunayevskaya’s Review of Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man Fromm’s Foreword to the German Edition of Dunayevskaya’s Philosophy and Revolution Dunayevskaya’s “In Memoriam” to Marcuse Dunayevskaya’s “In Memoriam” to Fromm

Autorenportrait

Kevin B. Anderson is a professor of sociology, political science, and feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. Russell Rockwell is an independent scholar based in New York.