Marcuse’s objectivist tendencies in the 1930s anticipated his later impasse in One-Dimensional Man

Evidence

Here Marcuse seemed to come perilously close to the stress on objective social development, which more orthodox Marxists had maintained, but which the Institut had attacked by emphasizing the subjective element in praxis. In fact, to digress momentarily, the key problem of how change might occur in a society that controlled the consciousness of its members remained a troubling element in much of Marcuse’s later work, especially One-Dimensional Man. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 237

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bridges this institutional history to the content of Marcuse’s later canonical work, useful for the reader’s critical theory orientation. — connects to: Marcuse’s unfinished yearbook article was an early draft of One-Dimensional Man — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1240