The new left and labor in the 1960s / Peter B. Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Peter B., author.

Series:

Working class in American history.

Working Class in American History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Left--United States.

New Left.

Labor unions--Political activity--United States.

Labor unions.

Working class--Political activity--United States.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The New Left and the 1960s is the third volume of Herbert Marcuse's collected papers. In 1964, Marcuse published a major study of advanced industrial society, One Dimensional Man, which was an important influence on the young radicals who formed the New Left. Marcuse embodied many of the defining political impulses of the New Left in his thought and politics - hence a younger generation of political activists looked up to him for theoretical and political guidance. The material collected in this volume provides a rich and deep grasp of the era and the role of Marcuse in the theoretical and political dramas of the day.This volume contains articles, letters, talks, and interviews including: "On the New Left," a transcription of the 1968 talk at the Guardian newspaper's twentieth anniversary; "Reflections on the French Revolution," which contains comments on the 1968 French student and worker uprising; "Liberation from the Affluent Society," which presents Marcuse's contribution to the 1967 Dialectics of Liberations conference; and "United States: Questions of Organization and the Revolutionary Subject," a conversation between Marcuse and the German writer Hans Magnus Enzenberger, published here in English for the first time.Edited by Douglas Kellner, this volume will be of interest to all those previously unfamiliar with Herbert Marcuse, generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social mileux of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to specialists, who will here have access to papers and articles collected in one volume for the first time.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Marcuse's Legacies; Introduction Radical Politics, Marcuse, and the New Left; Interventions; The Problem of Violence and the Radical Opposition; Liberation from the Affluent Society; Democracy Has/Hasn't a Future a Present; Marcuse Defines his New Left Line; Testimonies; On the New Left; Mr. Harold Keen: Interview with Dr. Herbert Marcuse; USA: Questions of Organization and the Revolutionary Subject: A Conversation with Hans Magnus Enzensberger; The Movement in a New Era of Repression: An Assessment; Bill Moyers: A Conversation with Herbert Marcuse

Marxism and Feminism1970s Interventions; The Failure of the New Left?; Afterword Marcuse's Cognitive Interest: A Personal View; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252047374

0252047370

9781134774586

1134774583

9780252063671

0252063678

9780815371670

0815371675

9781134774593

1134774591

9781280079689

1280079681

9780203646007

0203646002

9780415137829

0415137829

OCLC:

437059918