World events serve as a stage of constant search for how best to construct and maintain society, which is an underlying theme of some decades ago found in the works of Herbert Marcuse, 1898–1979, ...

Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers of the 1960s, a counterculture guru to students who spray-painted his words across the United States and Europe. Now, amid a revival of interest ...

Bless the American university, that exemplar of pluralism. Was it a playful University of Pennsylvania scheduler who managed to assign to the same all-purpose Houston Hall over a few days in October ...

Herbert Marcuse arrived at Brandeis in 1954 with almost no scholarly reputation. He'd never held a full-time teaching post, hadn't published a book since 1941, and had spent much of his professional ...

For scholars, the discovery of a long-forgotten manuscript is the academic equivalent of hitting the jackpot. Such a find can ignite years of discussion and renewed interest in the author and the work ...

“All liberation depends on the consciousness of servitude,” wrote Herbert Marcuse in 1964. By liberation, the German-American academic made abundantly clear he meant bringing central planning to ...

Herbert Marcuse was the single most famous person who ever taught at [University of California San Diego], and there was no living connection to him, no evidence of Marcuse having been there," says ...

The Black Lives Matter movement involved tens of millions of people going into the streets at great risk to their own safety. The mobilization of so many people in so many places ushered in a new era ...

To celebrate National Engineers Week -- of course you knew Feb. 17-23 is National Engineers Week, right? -- MIT Press interviews Matthew Wisnioski, author of their book “Engineers for Change: ...

The new cultural politics seeks to shut down debate and close minds. With the rise of the new intolerance, American public life appears to be trying to exemplify Henry Adams’s claim that politics is ...

BERLIN — The grand boulevard of Friedrichstrasse runs through the center of this once-divided city, from West Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie and then into the former East Berlin. It ends at a ...