[Marxism] Marcuse vs Popper: pre-game warm-up [4]

[Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxx>]

Two more sections of this book are up:

Marcuse, Herbert; Popper, Karl. Revolution or Reform? A Confrontation. Ed. 
A. T. Ferguson; trans. Michael Aylward & A. T. Ferguson; intro. Frederic L. 
Bender; afterword to German ed., Franz Stark. Chicago: Precedent Publishing 
Co., 1976. Originally published in German as Revolution oder Reform? 
Herbert Marcuse u. Karl Popper. Eine Konfrontation, ed. Franz Stark, 1972.

Table of contents
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/marcuse-popper-0.html

Afterword to the German Edition ? Franz Stark
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/marcuse-popper-7.html

I haven't (yet) put up the actual contributions to the staged (because not 
direct) debate.  The table of contents summarizes the areas covered.

Stark is much more sympathetic to Popper than is Bender.  With grudging 
qualification, Stark admits of a validity and an even greater penetration 
of Marcuse's ideas.  Finally, he urgently calls for a unification of the 
perspectives of the two thinkers.


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