Eros and Civilization

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Cover of the first edition
Author	Herbert Marcuse
Language	English
Subject	Sigmund Freud
Publisher	Beacon Press
Publication date	1955
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	277 (Beacon Press paperback edition)
ISBN	0-8070-1555-5

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Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955; second edition, 1966) is a book by the German philosopher and social critic Herbert Marcuse.

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Books

Abramson, Jeffrey B. (1986). Liberation and Its Limits: The Moral and Political Thought of Freud. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-2913-8.
Altman, Dennis (2012). Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-4937-2.
Benhabib, Seyla (1987). "Translator's Introduction". Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13221-3.
Bernstein, Richard J. (1988). "Negativity: Theme and Variations". In Pippin, Robert; Feenberg, Andrew; Webel, Charles P. (eds.). Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia. London: Macmillan Education. ISBN 978-0-333-44101-5.
Bohman, James (2017). "Marcuse, Herbert". In Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-64379-6.
Brown, Norman O. (1985). Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History. Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6144-2.
Brown, Phil (1974). Toward a Marxist Psychology. New York: Harper Colophon Books.
Cantor, Jay (2009). "Introduction". In Neu, Jerome (ed.). The Challenge of Islam: The Prophetic Tradition. Santa Cruz: New Pacific Press. ISBN 978-1-55643-802-8.
Caplan, Pat (1987). "Introduction". In Caplan, Pat (ed.). The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. London: Tavistock Publications. ISBN 978-0-422-60880-0.
Crews, Frederick (1975). Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-501947-6.
Dufresne, Todd (2000). Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text and Context. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3885-9.
Elliott, Anthony (2002). Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-333-91912-5.
Frosh, Stephen (1987). The Politics of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to Freudian and Post-Freudian Theory. Hong Kong: Macmillan Education. ISBN 978-0-333-39613-1.
Funk, Rainer (2000). Erich Fromm: His Life and Ideas. New York: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-1224-9.
Hencken, Joel D. (1982). "Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis: Toward a Mutual Understanding". In Paul, William; Weinrich, James D.; Gonsiorek, John C.; Hotvedt, Mary E. (eds.). Homosexuality: Social, Psychological, and Biological Issues. Beverly Hills: SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-0-262-13221-3.
Herzog, Dagmar (2017). Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-42087-8.
Hudson, Liam (1976). The Cult of the Fact. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-01221-8.
Hyman, Edward (1988). "Eros and Freedom: The Critical Psychology of Herbert Marcuse". In Pippin, Robert; Feenberg, Andrew; Webel, Charles P. (eds.). Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia. London: Macmillan Education. ISBN 978-0-333-44101-5.
Kellner, Douglas (1984). Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-36830-4.
Kovel, Joel (1991). History and Spirit: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-2916-9.
Kovel, Joel (1981). The Age of Desire: Case Histories of a Radical Psychoanalyst. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-50818-4.
Lewes, Kenneth (1988). The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality. New York: New American Library. ISBN 978-0-452-01003-1.
MacIntyre, Alasdair (1970). Marcuse. London: Fontana.
Marcuse, Herbert (1974). Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1555-1.
Marwick, Arthur (1998). The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States c.1958-c.1974. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-210022-1.
Murphy, Timothy F. (1985). "Freud Reconsidered: Bisexuality, Homosexuality, and Moral Judgement". In DeCecco, John P.; Shively, Michael G. (eds.). Origins of Sexuality and Homosexuality. New York: Harrington Park Press. ISBN 978-0-918393-00-5.
Paglia, Camille (2018). Provocations: Collected Essays. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9781524746896.
Porter, Roy (1996). "Is Foucault Useful For Understanding Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sexuality?". In Keddie, Nikki R. (ed.). Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-8147-4655-1.
Posner, Richard (1992). Sex and Reason. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-80279-7.
Ricœur, Paul (1970). Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-02189-9.
Robinson, Paul (1990). The Freudian Left. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-9716-2.
Schwartz, Joel (1990). "Freud and the American Constitution". In Bloom, Allan (ed.). Confronting the Constitution: The Challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism, Pragmatism, Existentialism... Washington, D. C.: The AEI Press. ISBN 978-0-8447-3700-3.
Scruton, Roger (1994). Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation. London: Phoenix Books. ISBN 978-1-85799-100-0.
Seidler, Victor J. (1987). "Reason, desire, and male sexuality". In Caplan, Pat (ed.). The Cultural Construction of Sexuality. London: Tavistock Publications. ISBN 978-0-422-60880-0.
Sontag, Susan (1990). Against Interpretation and Other Essays. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-385-26708-3.
Weeks, Jeffrey (1993). Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-04503-2.

Journals

Alford, C. Fred (1987). "Eros and Civilization after thirty years". Theory & Society. 16 (6). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Alford, C. Fred (1993). "Reconciliation with Nature? The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and Melanie Klein". Theory, Culture & Society. 10 (2): 207–227. doi:10.1177/026327693010002011. S2CID 145412826. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Bertman, M. A. (1998). "Collected papers of Herbert Marcuse (Book Review)". Choice. 36 (4). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Beard, Michael (1998). "Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis (Book Review)". Edebiyat: Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures. 9 (1). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Bird-Pollan, Stefan (2013). "Critiques of Judgment". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1): 99–107. doi:10.5840/radphilrev201316112. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Casteel, P. D. (2017). "Marcuse & Administration". Marcuse & Administration -- Research Starters Sociology (April 1, 2017). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Celarent, Barbara (2010). "Eros and Civilization". American Journal of Sociology. 115 (6): 1964–1972. doi:10.1086/654745. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Cerullo, Margaret (1979). "Marcuse and Feminism". New German Critique. 18 (18): 21–23. doi:10.2307/487846. JSTOR 487846.
Cho, Daniel (2006). "Thanatos and Civilization: Lacan, Marcuse, and the Death Drive". Policy Futures in Education. 4 (1): 18–30. doi:10.2304/pfie.2006.4.1.18. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Chodorow, Nancy Julia (1985). "Beyond Drive Theory: Object Relations and the Limits of Radical Individualism". Theory & Society. 14 (3): 271–319. doi:10.1007/BF00161280. S2CID 140431722. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Duvenage, Pieter (2017). "Filosofie as aktualiteitsinterpretasie. Marinus Schoeman as denker". Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe. 57 (1): 7–21. doi:10.17159/2224-7912/2017/v57n1a2. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Edel, Abraham (1956). "Instead of Repression". The Nation. 183 (1). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Escoffier, Jeffrey (2015). "Marcuse, Herbert (1898-1979)". GLBTQ Social Sciences. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Evans, Sara M. (2009). "Sons, Daughters, and Patriarchy: Gender and the 1968 Generation". The American Historical Review. 114 (2): 331–347. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.2.331. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Farr, Arnold L.; Kellner, Douglas; Lamas, Andrew T.; Reitz, Charles (2013). "Herbert Marcuse's Critical Refusals". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Fernandes, Franco; Augusto, Sérgio (2016). "Sobre o uso do conceito de sublimação e suas derivações, a partir da perspectiva estética marcuseana". DoisPontos. 13 (3). doi:10.5380/dp.v13i3.47239. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Fingarette, Herbert (1957). "Eros and Utopia". The Review of Metaphysics. 10 (4).
Grotjahn, Martin (1956). "Eros and Civilization. A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud: By Herbert Marcuse. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955. 277 pp". The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 25: 429–431.
Hammer, Espen (2008). "Marcuse's critical theory of modernity". Philosophy & Social Criticism. 34 (9): 1071–1093. doi:10.1177/0191453708098538. S2CID 143566595. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Hite, Molly (2010). ""Fun Actually Was Becoming Quite Subversive": Herbert Marcuse, the Yippies, and the Value System of Gravity's Rainbow". Contemporary Literature. 51 (4): 677–702. doi:10.1353/cli.2011.0004. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Holland, Nancy J. (2011). "Looking Backwards: A Feminist Revisits Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization". Hypatia. 26 (1): 65–78. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2010.01127.x. S2CID 143753926. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Howell, R. J. (1990). "Melanie Klein and critical social theory (Book Review)". Choice. 27. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Jay, Martin (1982). "Anamnestic totalization: Reflections on Marcuse's theory of remembrance". Theory & Society. 11 (1). doi:10.1007/bf00173107. S2CID 146846698. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Jones, Richard M. (1958). "The Return of the Un-Repressed". American Imago. 15 (2): 175–180.
Kimball, Roger (1997). "The marriage of Marx & Freud". The New Criterion. 16 (4). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Kluckhohn, Clyde (1955). "A Critique on Freud". The New York Times Book Review: 30.
Marcuse, Herbert (2013). "From Marx to Freud to Marx". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1): 25–30. doi:10.5840/radphilrev20131615. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Mattick, Paul (1956). "Marx and Freud". Western Socialist. March/April 1956.
Moldenhauer, Jearld (1972). "Marcuse and the Gay Revolution". The Body Politic (6). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Moore, Duston (2007). "Whitehead and Marcuse". Journal of Classical Sociology. 17 (1): 83–108. doi:10.1177/1468795X07073953. S2CID 143850620. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Nicholas, Jeffrey L. (2017). "Refusing Polemics: Retrieving Marcuse for Maclntyrean Praxis". Radical Philosophy Review. 20 (2): 185–213. doi:10.5840/radphilrev201742576. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Nicholsen, Shierry Weber (2006). "The Accumulated Guilt of Humankind: On the Aesthetic in a Damaged World". Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie (22/23). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Nyberg, Paul (1956). "A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud". Harvard Educational Review. 26 (1).
Privitello, Lucio Angelo (2013). "Teaching Marcuse". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1): 109–122. doi:10.5840/radphilrev201316113.
Rayman, Joshua (2005). "Marcuse's Metaphysics: The Turn from Heidegger to Freud". Telos (131). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Shearmur, Jeremy (1983). "Social Amnesia (Book Review)". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 13 (1). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Sica, Alan (2011). "The Case of Barbara Celarent, Champion Book Reviewer". Contemporary Sociology. 40 (4): 385–387. doi:10.1177/0094306111412511.
Stakemeier, Kerstin (2006). "Eros im Fordismus zur Ästhetisierung der Politik in den Fünfziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts". Zeitschrift für Kritische Theorie (22/23). – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Stirk, Peter M. R. (1999). "Eros and civilization revisited". History of the Human Sciences. 12 (1): 73–90. doi:10.1177/09526959922120162. S2CID 144184630. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Tuttle, H. N. (1988). "Hegel's ontology and the theory of historicity (Book Review)". Choice. 25. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Walsh, Sean Noah (2008). "The subversion of Eros: Dialectic, revolt, and murder in the polity of the soul". Crime, Media, Culture. 4 (2): 221–236. doi:10.1177/1741659008092329. S2CID 145245919. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Weineck, Silke-Maria (2000). "Sex and history, or Is there an erotic utopia in Dantons Tod?". The German Quarterly. 73 (4): 351–365. doi:10.2307/3072756. JSTOR 3072756. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Whitfield, Stephen J. (2014). "Refusing Marcuse". Dissent. 61 (4): 102–107. doi:10.1353/dss.2014.0075. S2CID 143795306. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
Wolff, Kurt H. (1956). "Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud". American Journal of Sociology. 62 (3): 342–343. doi:10.1086/222021.
Young, Robert M. (1969). "The Naked Marx". New Statesman. 78 (November 7, 1969).
"Marcuse's Conception of Eros". Radical Philosophy Review. 16 (1). 2013. – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)

External links

Table of contents, with links to full texts of preface, 1966 preface, introduction, chapter 1, epilog, and index (at marcuse.org)
Citations of numerous reviews in 6 languages, with links to on-line texts
Review by Paul Mattick
Review by Robert M. Young

Eros and Civilization

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