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“Beware, Marcuse”!

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This chapter is concerned with Herbert Marcuse’s powerful, yet tortured, attempt to reconcile Marxism and Freudianism in the name of a liberated reason. This approach within critical theory argues that in a return to pre-reflective experience and a primary narcissism the possibility of a different kind of reason can be speculatively glimpsed.

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    Alastair Morgan

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Morgan, A. (2022). “Beware, Marcuse”!. In: Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09334-0_11

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