by Herbert Marcuse He was called the guru of the student movements in the 1960s. Posner accused Marcuse of wrongly believing that polymorphous perversity would help to create a utopia and that sex has the potential to be a politically subversive force. Writing in Public Intellectuals: A Story of Decline (2001), he suggested that “1960s […]

Benedict Beckeld. 02 Mar 2022. “He claims, contrary to all historical evidence, that sexual liberation could absorb the human instinct for destruction.” … Marcuse’s work commits the standard error of rejecting Nietzsche’s and Freud’s entirely correct understanding that a considerable measure of repression is required for all human civilization.

By Guillaume Le Blanc December 2, 2019 Sexual subject, speaking the truth of oneself, and confession are the three great theoretical operations that circulate in the text. They are three effects of a technique of the self that was constructed thanks to sexuality—through which we all became confessional creatures. We must therefore say that sexuality […]

At its core, #MeToo represents a rejection of the sixties’ vision of erotic liberation. by Kay S. Hymowitz. In the quest for what Herbert Marcuse, one of the period’s guiding philosophers, called the “liberation of instinctual needs and satisfactions which have hitherto remained tabooed or repressed,” revolutionaries rejected all forms of “social control” as both […]