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Marcuse's Metaphysics: The Turn from Heidegger to Freud

This decade has seen an apparent reversal of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse's long, slow decline into obscurity, which would suggest a recent turning point in the scholarship.¹ However, to judge by standards of quality, sympathy, and tone, the decisive turn in Marcuse scholarship coincides with its quantitative midpoint, a quarter century ago. The highly visible first wave of Marcuse scholarship (1967-1980) is polarized between hostile attacks and uncritical support, especially during Marcuse's heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s. By contrast, the smaller, more marginalized, second wave of Marcuse scholarship (1981-2005) tends toward careful, sympathetic, historically-comprehensive treatments of...