Which philosopher wrote Eros and Civilization and One Dimensional Man?
Eros and Civilization According to P. D. Casteel, "Eros and Civilization" is, with "One-Dimensional Man", the work Marcuse is best known for. Eros and Civilization Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955; second edition, 1966) is a book by the German philosopher and social critic Herbert Marcuse, in which the author proposes a non-repressive society, attempts a synthesis of the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, and explores the potential of collective memory to be a source of disobedience and revolt and point the way to an alternative future. Its title alludes to Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" (1930). The
Eros and Civilization by "Eros and Civilization". He pointed to Altman as an activist who had been inspired by the book, which inspired him to argue that the challenge to "conventional norms" represented by gay people made them revolutionary. Rainer Funk wrote that the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, in a letter to the philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya, dismissed "Eros and Civilization" as an incompetent distortion of Freud and "the expression of an alienation and despair masquerading as radicalism" and referred to Marcuse's "ideas for the future man" as irrational and sickening. The gay rights activist Jeffrey Escoffier discussed "Eros and Civilization" in "GLBTQ Social Sciences",