Marcuse’s 1960s counterculture enthusiasm gave way to 1970s pessimism
Evidence
Marcuse’s mid-196o’s enthusiasm for the “counterculture,” however, has begun to wane in the 1970’s; see, for example, his review of Charles Reich’s The Greening of America (The New York Times, Nov. 6, 1970, P. 41), and his Counterrevolution and Revolt (Boston, 1972). — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1423
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Marcuse served the New Left as a canonical revolutionary theorist by 1968. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 4; Marcuse’s move from revolution to academia followed the failure of the German revolution