Contra Marcuse

by Eliseo Vivas

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B000J66NRE
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Delta/Dell
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

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Contra Marcuse

Across America the violent ones rage: Weathermen throwing bombs, New Leftists disrupting academic conventions, great universities torn apart by student mobs. What motivates them? Who has instilled in them this boundless hatred for American society? Lenin, Ho, Fidel, Che - these we know about. But on our own shores, encamped at the University of California at San Diego, is another New Left mentor who ranks with them: Herbert Marcuse. Why does he hate America? Until now we have had only apologias for Marcuse from Liberals who pave the way for his extremism. Now a respected scholar gives us a stingng intellectual indictment of the man and his ideas. The scholar is Dr. Eliseo Vivas, retired professor of philosophy at Northwestern University. Vivas has given Americans the ammunition they need to understand and fight - within the Academy - the nihilists, the bomb-throwers, the revolutionaries.... The Marcuseans are dangerous, Vivas warns, and just may succeed in their goal of destroying the Academy in America. As for the defense of "academic freedom," Vivas explains why he believes that "applied to Marcuse this argument is utterly irrelevant since Marcuse repudiates in advance the code of conduct that allows a man to apply for membership in the academic world." Backed up against the wall, the last whimper of the Liberal is, "They are trying to tell us something. We ought to listen." Vivas what they are telling us, and he tells it as it is. --- excerpts from book's dustjacket