Télos 2013 (165):9-22 (
2013)
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1. In one sense, Herbert Marcuse seems like the sort of theorist whose significance would be fleeting. A generation coming of age in a world of tumult, rebelling against authority, against the Establishment, needed an authority—needed a father. Marcuse appeared to be the perfect fit: reaching the desired conclusions using an authorizing language that was sophisticated but radical . The machinery of Marcuse's critical theory had been developed by his…