Eros and Civilization

Japanese: 《エロスと文明》 - えろすとぶんめい
Eros and Civilization

…He studied Hegel from a unique perspective that combined the influence of Husserl and Heidegger with Marxism, and in 1932 he joined the Frankfurt School of Social Research, which was the center of critical Marxist research and was led by Horkheimer and others. After the Nazis took power, he fled to the United States (naturalized in 1940) and continued his research activities from an anti-fascist standpoint. He eventually wrote Reason and Revolution (1941) and Eros and Civilization (1955), in which he preached a philosophy of negation that criticized positivist social theory, and developed his own theory of civilization that criticized neo-Freudian social theory. While criticizing Soviet Marxism, he preached a total rejection of the existing system in response to the alienation of humans in modern controlled societies brought about by advanced industrialization (One-Dimensional Man, 1964), and had a major ideological influence on the global student revolts (New Left Movement) in the late 1960s. …

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Japanese:

…フッサールとハイデッガーの影響とマルクス主義を結合した独自の視角からのヘーゲル研究を行うとともに,1932年批判的マルクス主義研究の中心であったホルクハイマーらのフランクフルト社会研究所(フランクフルト学派)に参加した。ナチスの政権奪取とともにアメリカに亡命(1940年帰化),反ファシズムの立場から研究活動を続け,やがて《理性と革命》(1941)や《エロスと文明》(1955)を書いて,実証主義的社会理論を批判する〈否定の哲学〉を説き,また新フロイト主義的社会理論を批判する独自の文明論を展開した。そして,ソビエト・マルクス主義を批判しつつ,高度工業化がもたらした現代管理社会の人間疎外に対して,現存体制の全面的拒否を説き(《一次元的人間》1964),60年代後半の世界的規模での学生の総反乱(新左翼運動)に大きな思想的影響を与えた。…

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