Marcuse fused Heidegger, Freud, and Marx into cultural-revolutionary theory.

Evidence

Marcuse, who in his early articles had used Heidegger’s existential ontology in a Marxist fashion and had spoken of the total revolution' and of realizing the whole human being’, drafted a cultural-revolutionary introduction to Freudian and Marxist thought in Eros and Civilization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2140

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marcuse used Freud’s metapsychology to argue a repression-free culture is conceivable.; Reading the early Marx turned Marcuse from Heideggerian existentialism toward revolutionary theory. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 18; Marcuse’s early project merged Heideggerian phenomenology with Marx against Engels’ naturalism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 274 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Reading the early Marx turned Marcuse from Heideggerian existentialism toward revolutionary theory. #expands (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 18
• Marcuse’s early project merged Heideggerian phenomenology with Marx against Engels’ naturalism #expands (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 274
• Political crises pushed Marcuse toward Freud and a utopian radicalism #expands (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 367
• Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization revived the revolutionary Freud Horkheimer and Adorno had rejected. #expands (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 364
• Horkheimer steered Marcuse from Heideggerian phenomenology toward critical Marxism #complicates (0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 283
• Marcuse gave standard philosophical categories a materialist base. #expands (0.70) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 15
• Marcuse used Freud’s metapsychology to argue a non-repressive civilization is conceivable #expands (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2132