Herbert Marcuse Quotes on Knowledge
Herbert Marcuse was a 20th-century German-American philosopher and a leading figure of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, particularly in its American period. This page collects quotes attributed to Herbert Marcuse on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“The Foundations of Historical Materialism,” Studies in Critical Philosophy (1972), p. 9”
Bourgeois political economy … never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a ‘ science of people’ but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities . -
“The Foundations of Historical Materialism," Studies in Critical Philosophy (1972), p. 32”
In conditions of private property … “life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. -
“We hope that the analysis offered here will demonstrate that Hegel ’s basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that have led into Fascist theory and practice. Preface”
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“Man alone has the power of self-realization, the power to be a self-determining subject in all processes of becoming, for he alone has an understanding of potentialities and a knowledge of ‘notions.’ His very existence is the process of actualizing his potentialities, of molding his life according to the notions of reason. P. 9”
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“German idealism rescued philosophy from the attack of British empiricism , and the struggle between the two became not merely a clash of different philosophical school, but a struggle for philosophy as such. P. 16”
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