A preface later added to this work claims this work's original tone was fundamentally optimistic, geared to "learn the gay science".
A preface later added to this work claims this work's original tone was fundamentally optimistic, geared to "learn the gay science". It considers a new image of life after discussing the preservation of the "archaic past" in a section on "Phantasy and Utopia", and this work places Prometheus opposite both Narcissus and Orpheus. It discusses the "transformation of work into play", and posits a distinction between alienated labour and the reality principle in the second chapter as well as the reactionary character of the superego in its second chapter, "The Origin of the Repressed Individual." It ends with a chapter juxtaposing its first title concept with thanatos, and argues our libidinous desires are suppressed by the second title concept. Drawing on Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, for 10 points, name this work by Herbert Marcuse.
A preface later added to this work claims this work's original tone was fundamentally optimistic, geared to "learn the gay science".
{Eros} and {Civilization}