Abstract

Another book on Marcuse... is it really necessary? Few things in life are necessary, but this particular work is certainly very helpful. It is written by one of France's more important, younger, social philosophers who is more than sufficiently acquainted with the cultural, literary, and historical background to produce a high quality, scholarly work of this sort. For some years Raulet has been a codirector of the annual Praxis gathering in Dubrovnik and the director of the Weimar Cultural Study Group at the Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris. His previous writings in a variety of languages show both a wide breath of interest and a serious understanding of the European intellectual movements from the eighteenth century to the present.