Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll
Published:
01 July 2012
Online ISBN:
9781452948997
Print ISBN:
9780816680788
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Willis, Ellen, 'Herbert Marcuse, 1898–1979', Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll (Minneapolis, MN , 2012; online edn, Minnesota Scholarship Online, 24 Aug. 2015), https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816680788.003.0017, accessed 11 Aug. 2026.
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Abstract
This chapter presents the author’s thoughts about Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse had a monolithically bleak view of advanced capitalism and his contempt for American workers’ enjoyment of their material gains was hardly distinguishable from other conservative critics of mass culture. However, the author agrees with his contention that the modern capitalist state has immense resources for social control, that it operates as much by manipulation as by direct coercion. She also agrees with his thinking that the American ruling class uses liberalism as one of its many weapons, trying whenever it can to pass off the appearance of freedom as the reality.
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Cultural Studies
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Minnesota Scholarship Online
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