Marcuse’s dialectical method treated totalitarianism as both reaction and continuation of liberalism
Evidence
Marcuse’s article “The Struggle against Liberalism in the Totalitarian View of the State” is worth examining in detail because of the number of points he makes that were subsequently developed in other works by the Institut. The essay is also a model of dialectical thinking, treating totalitarianism as both a reaction to and a continu ation of certain trends in liberalism. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 404
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Marcuse argued bourgeois notions of freedom actually sanctioned existing authority — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 424; Totalitarianism fused liberal naturalism with irrationalism to deify nature against history — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 405; Totalitarian claims to totality merely reversed the bourgeoisie’s own political philosophy — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 798 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Totalitarian claims to totality merely reversed the bourgeoisie’s own political philosophy
#expands(0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 798 - Liberal ideas evolved into totalitarianism through logical stages governed by external circumstances and emotions.
#corroborates(0.80) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2337 - Totalitarianism is inherently, not just contingently, connected to modernity
#expands(0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 401 - Marcuse planned a systematic theory of transitions between social systems
#corroborates(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 26