The Party of Eros

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In the outpouring of popularizing and sentimentaí books and journalistic brouhaha on the "counter culture," the names of Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown surface at intervals, only to be lost in the next wave of superficia! anaiysis. Their writings unexamined and their roots unexplored, they remain shibboleths, names to conjure with in a fashionable game. In this provocative study, Richárd King treats Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown as the three most important radical social theorists in America since the end of World War 11 His reasoned conclusions will attract anyone interested in the nonpolitical background of today's radical social thought. The opening chapters of this book deal incisively with the major intellectual influences on Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown. The contributions of Marx, Freud, and Wilhelm Reich are assessed, as are the lesser influences of William James, John Dewey, and Thorstein Veblen. Mr. King alsó provides a detailed and originál anaiysis of... Tovább

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In the outpouring of popularizing and sentimentaí books and journalistic brouhaha on the "counter culture," the names of Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown surface at intervals, only to be lost in the next wave of superficia! anaiysis. Their writings unexamined and their roots unexplored, they remain shibboleths, names to conjure with in a fashionable game. In this provocative study, Richárd King treats Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown as the three most important radical social theorists in America since the end of World War 11 His reasoned conclusions will attract anyone interested in the nonpolitical background of today's radical social thought. The opening chapters of this book deal incisively with the major intellectual influences on Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown. The contributions of Marx, Freud, and Wilhelm Reich are assessed, as are the lesser influences of William James, John Dewey, and Thorstein Veblen. Mr. King alsó provides a detailed and originál anaiysis of Dwight Macdonald's Politics and its crucial role in defining a new way for post-World War II radical theory. In the central chapters deal ing with Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown, the author concentrates on the cultural aspects of their radicalism, the call for a change in consciousness itself. Many of the values and attitudes under attack by these radical social theorists are implicit in western society; Vissza