Marcuse justified rebellion as a biological necessity rather than a revolutionary opportunity.
Evidence
Three years later, when the police evicted students from the Institute of Social Research (see below, p. 633), Marcuse again explained his basic attitude to the student opposition to Adorno: `We know (and they know) that the situation is not a revolutionary one, not even a pre-revolutionary one. But this situation is so horrible, so suffocating and humiliating, that rebellion against it forces you into a biological, physiological reaction: you can no longer bear it, you’re suffocating and you have to get air … it is the air that we (or at least I) also want to breathe one day. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 649
Categorization
- XREF: Sharp contrast point against Adorno’s position on the student occupation of the Institute — the definitive Marcuse-vs-Adorno split this history turns on. — connects to: Marcuse framed rebellion as a physiological reaction to suffocation, not revolution. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2605; Marcuse rejected the innate death instinct in favor of life-preservation failing against circumstance — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 379; Marcuse excused student rebellion as an unbearable physiological necessity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 667 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse framed rebellion as a physiological reaction to suffocation, not revolution. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2605; Marcuse rejected the innate death instinct in favor of life-preservation failing against circumstance — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 379; Marcuse excused student rebellion as an unbearable physiological necessity. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 667 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Marcuse framed rebellion as a physiological reaction to suffocation, not revolution.
#corroborates(0.96) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2605 - Marcuse excused student rebellion as an unbearable physiological necessity.
#corroborates(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 667