MARCUSE, Herbert
Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
London, Oxford University Press, 1941
8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles to board and spine, dust jacket, 431 pp.; nice copy in a very good not price-clipped but slightly faded jacket, previous owner’s stamp on jacket front flap and front endpaper, otherwise unmarked
First edition of Marcuse’s classic work on the social theories of Hegel and Marx in which he aims to demonstrate that Hegel’s basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that have led to Fascist theory and practice. Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) was a German-American philosopher and political theorist associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His Marxist scholarship inspired many intellectuals and political activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Some consider him “the Father of the New Left”.
