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Crisis and Critique: Receptions of Herbert Marcuse in Telos and Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer

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The late 1960s revealed a deep crisis in advanced industrial societies as well as a rigorous critique of both orthodox Marxism and advanced capitalism. Even the radical activities of the New Left were submitted to critique. The ramifications of the crisis and the import of the critique, however, were not confined to advanced industrial societies, and almost all of Herbert Marcuse’s writings were translated into Arabic in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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  1. 1.

    Zaki Naguid Mahmoud, “Editor’s Note,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 1 (March 1965): 7.

  2. 2.

    Paul Piccone, “Students’ Protest, Class structure and Ideology,” Telos, 2, no. 1 (Spring 1969) (3), 106.

  3. 3.

    Piccone, “Students’ Protest”, 109–110 and 122.

  4. 4.

    Paul Piccone, “Review: Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Co., 1973),” Telos, no. 16 (Summer 1973): 149.

  5. 5.

    Paul Piccone and Alexander Delfini, “Herbert Marcuse’s Heideggerian Marxism,” Telos, 6 (Fall 1970): 39.

  6. 6.

    Zaki Naguid Mahmoud, “The Spirit of the Age,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 1 (March 1965): 15–16.

  7. 7.

    Zaki Naguid Mahmoud, “The Hell is Other People,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer,” 1 (March 1965): 99.

  8. 8.

    Hussein Fawzi Al Naggar, “Arab socialism and the Interpretation of History,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 16 (June 1966): 10–17.

  9. 9.

    Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, “Generation Struggle,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 37 (March 1968): 1.

  10. 10.

    Zaki Naguid Mahmoud, “Marxism as Method,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, April, 3 (May 1965): 8–13.

  11. 11.

    Mahmoud Mahmoud, “The Alienation of Modern Man,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 3 (May 1965): 15–23.

  12. 12.

    Mahmoud Mamoud, “The New Socialism,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 5 (July 1965): 26–36.

  13. 13.

    Hamid Rabi', “The Right and the Left Reconsidered,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 15 (May 1966): 26–31.

  14. 14.

    Richard Bernstein, “Negativity: Theme and Variations,” Praxis International, 1 (1981): 87–100.

  15. 15.

    Fredric Jameson, “Herbert Marcuse: Towards a Marxist Hermeneutic,” Salmagundi, no. 20, Psychological Man: Approaches to an Emergent Social Type, (Summer-Fall 1972), 126–33.

  16. 16.

    Herbert Marcuse, “Beiträge zu einer Phänomenologie des historischen Materialismus”, Philosophische Hefte, No. 1, (July 1928), 45–68.The essay first appeared in German—it was later published in English in the fourth issue of Telos, (Fall 1969): 3–34.

  17. 17.

    Marcuse, “Beiträge zu einer Phänomenologie des historischen Materialismus”, 30.

  18. 18.

    Paul Piccone and Alexander Delfini, “Herbert Marcuse’s Heideggerian Marxism,” Telos, 6 (Fall 1970): 40–42.

  19. 19.

    Paul Piccone, “Phenomenological Marxism,” Telos, 9 (Fall 1971): 9–11.

  20. 20.

    Piccone, “Phenomenological Marxism,” 24–25.

  21. 21.

    Piccone, 31.

  22. 22.

    Pier Aldo Rovatti, “Phenomenological Analysis of Marxism: The Return to the Subject and the Dialectic of Totality,” Telos, 5 (Spring 1970), 161.

  23. 23.

    Pier Aldo Rovatti, “Critical Theory and Phenomenology,” Telos, 15 (Spring 1973), 27–29.

  24. 24.

    Rovatti, “Critical Theory and Phenomenology,” 29–31.

  25. 25.

    Rovatti, 34–36.

  26. 26.

    Herbert Marcuse, “Über die Philosophischen Grundlagen des wirtschaftswissenschaftischen Arbeits-Begreiffs, “Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik, 69:3, 1933, 257–292. The essay was originally published in German, then translated by Douglas Kellner as “On the Philosophical Foundations of the Concept of Labor in Economics,” Telos, 16 (Summer 1973): 9–37.

  27. 27.

    Rovatti, “Critical Theory and Phenomenology,” 36–38.

  28. 28.

    See Douglas Kellner’s introduction to Marcuse’s essay, Telos, 16 (Summer 1973): 3–8.

  29. 29.

    Russell Jacoby, “A Critique of Automatic Marxism: The Politics of Philosophy from Lukács to the Frankfurt School,” Telos, 10 (Winter 1971): 142–44.

  30. 30.

    Fouad Zakariyya, “A New Horizon for Philosophy,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 1 (March 1965): 17–22.

  31. 31.

    Zakariyya Ibrahim, “Marxism and Phenomenology,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 4 (June 1965): 19–26.

  32. 32.

    Imam Abdel Fattah Imam, “The Revolution of Negation,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 68 (October 1970): 49–50.

  33. 33.

    Hasan Hanafi, “Phenomenology and The Crisis of European Sciences,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 59 (January 1970): 38–50.

  34. 34.

    Hasan Hanafi, “Hegel and Contemporary Thought,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 67 (September 1970): 28–43.

  35. 35.

    Hasan Hanafi, “Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution,” Al Kāteb, 110 (May 1970). Republished in his book On Contemporary Western Thought, Beirut: al-Muassasah al-Jāmiiyah lil-Dirasāt wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzi, (1990): 389–417.

  36. 36.

    Abdel Fattah Al Didi, “Hegel’s Rumours in England and the US,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 67 (September 1970): 91–97.

  37. 37.

    Al Didi, “Hegel’s Rumours in England and the US,” 44.

  38. 38.

    Jacoby, “A Critique of Automatic Marxism,” 136–39.

  39. 39.

    Rovatti, “Critical Theory and Phenomenology,” 38–39.

  40. 40.

    Piccone and Delfini, “Herbert Marcuse’s Heideggerian Marxism,” 45-46.

  41. 41.

    Mitchell Franklin, “The Irony of the Beautiful Soul of Herbert Marcuse,” Telos, 6 (Fall 1970): 5. The paper was originally delivered at the meeting of the society for the study of dialectical materialism held in New York City, December 28, 1969.

  42. 42.

    Franklin, “The Irony of the Beautiful Soul of Herbert Marcuse,” 12.

  43. 43.

    Franklin, 19–24.

  44. 44.

    Alexander Delfini, “Review of Herbert Marcuse’s Counter-Revolution and Revolt, Beacon Press, 1972,” Telos, 13 (Fall 1972): 150.

  45. 45.

    Franklin, “The Irony of the Beautiful soul of Herbert Marcuse,” 3–35.

  46. 46.

    Andrew Tymowski, “Review of Jürgen Harbermas, Toward a Rational Society (Boston: Beacon, 1970),” Telos, 8 (Summer 1971): 138–41.

  47. 47.

    Maxy Beml, “Review of Jürgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society (Boston, Beacon Press, 1970),” Telos, 8 (Summer 1971): 142–45.

  48. 48.

    Russell Jacoby, “The Politics of Subjectivity: Notes on Marxism: The Movement, and Bourgeois Society,” Telos, 9 (Fall 1971): 120–25.

  49. 49.

    Delfini, “Review of Herbert Marcuse’s Counter-Revolution and Revolt,” 147–51.

  50. 50.

    Delfini, 152.

  51. 51.

    Delfini, 156.

  52. 52.

    Delfini, 154–55.

  53. 53.

    Paul Piccone, “Review of Presentation d’Herbert Marcuse, Union General d’Editions, Paris: 1959,” Telos, 2, no. 1 (Spring 1969) (3): 152.

  54. 54.

    Fouad Zakariyya, “American Youth and the Philosophy of Revolt,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 58 (December 1969), 6–11.

  55. 55.

    As’ad Haleem, “Student Movements: A New Revolutionary Force,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 44 (October 1968): 50–59.

  56. 56.

    Ahmed Fayeq, “Psychological Lights on the Youth Movements,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 44 (October 1968): 60–68.

  57. 57.

    Mohamed Atef al Ghamri, “The New American Left,” Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer, 49 (March 1969): 67–70.

  58. 58.

    Georges Tarabishi, “On Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man,” Al Adāb, 8 (August 1969): 34–39.

  59. 59.

    Ahmed al Sadani, “Herbert Marcuse and the One-Dimensional Man,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer, 58 (December 1969): 24–31.

  60. 60.

    Mujahed Abdul Monem Mujahed, “Herbert Marcuse: From the Dialectic of Language to the Language of Dialectic,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer, 80 (October 1971): 56–59.

  61. 61.

    Ahmed Fouad Baleegh, “Herbert Marcuse and the critical theory of society,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer,” 58 (December 1969): 38–41.

  62. 62.

    Fouad Zakariyya, “One Crisis or Two,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer, 79 ( September 1971): 2–12.

  63. 63.

    Hasan Hanafi, “Crisis of Reason or Triumph of Reason,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer, 79 (September 1971): 24–40.

  64. 64.

    As’ad Haleem, “Student Movements: A New Revolutionary Force,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer, 44 (October 1968): 50–59.

  65. 65.

    Amin Al Ayouti, “Absurdism: Absurdity of Self or Absurdity of Reality,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer, 37 (March 1968): 93–99.

  66. 66.

    Zvi Tauber, “Herbert Marcuse on the Arab-Israeli Conflict: His Conversation with Moshe Dayan,” Telos, 158 (Spring 2012): 171–84.

  67. 67.

    Fouad Zakariyya, “Marcuse and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Al Fekr al Mo’āṣer, 80 (October 1971): 42–48.

  68. 68.

    For a complete list of interviews and articles on this topic, see Zvi Tauber’s article in Telos, 158 (Spring 2012): 171–84.

  69. 69.

    Mohamed Belhassan,“ Marcuse in Nablus,” Al Adāb, 3 (March 1972): 94.

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Ali, H. (2023). Crisis and Critique: Receptions of Herbert Marcuse in Telos and Al Fekr Al Mo’āṣer. In: Hines, T., Jansen, PE., Kirsch, R.E., Maley, T. (eds) The Dialectics of Liberation in Dark Times. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22488-1_9

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