Eros and Civilization
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Eros and Civilization is a 1955 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that blends Marxist and Freudian ideas to critique modern industrial society and imagine a non-repressive, liberated future.
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work → |
| aimsTo |
reconcile freedom and civilization
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reinterpret Freud in a utopian direction → |
| author |
Herbert Marcuse
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| conceptsUsed |
Eros
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Thanatos → performance principle → pleasure principle → reality principle → surplus repression → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| critiques |
advanced industrial society
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performance principle → surplus repression → |
| field |
political philosophy
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psychoanalytic theory → social philosophy → |
| genre |
critical theory
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philosophy → social theory → |
| influencedBy |
Friedrich Nietzsche
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G. W. F. Hegel → Georg Lukács → Immanuel Kant → Karl Marx → Martin Heidegger → Max Horkheimer → Sigmund Freud → Theodor W. Adorno → |
| language |
English
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| mainSubject |
Freudian theory
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Marxism → civilization → critical theory of society → industrial society → instinct theory → liberation → psychoanalysis → repression → |
| movement |
Frankfurt School
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| proposes |
liberation of Eros
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non-repressive civilization → |
| publicationYear |
1955
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| publisher |
Beacon Press
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| relatedWork |
One-Dimensional Man
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Reason and Revolution → |
| subtitle |
A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
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| theoreticalFramework |
Freudian psychoanalysis
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Marxism → critical theory → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Herbert Marcuse
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notableWork |
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An Essay on Liberation
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relatedWork |