An Essay on Liberation

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An Essay on Liberation is a 1969 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that critiques advanced industrial society and explores the possibilities for radical social transformation and human emancipation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical work
aimsTo analyze obstacles to emancipation
theorize conditions for liberation
author Herbert Marcuse
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
critiques advanced industrial capitalism
bureaucratic domination
consumerism
one-dimensional society
technological domination
genre critical theory
political philosophy
social philosophy
hasImpactOn radical political theory
social movements theory
hasPart chapter on liberation of nature
chapter on new sensibility
chapter on student opposition
chapter on subverting the affluent society
influencedBy Hegelian dialectics
Karl Marx
Sigmund Freud
critical theory
language English
mainSubject Marxist theory
New Left
advanced industrial society
aesthetic dimension
consumer society
human emancipation
libidinal energy
radical social transformation
repression
social liberation
student movements
technological rationality
utopia
philosophicalTradition Frankfurt School
Western Marxism
proposes new sensibility
non-repressive society
qualitative change in needs
publicationYear 1969
publisher Beacon Press
relatedWork Eros and Civilization
One-Dimensional Man
timePeriodAddressed 1960s social movements
late industrial society

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