Marcuse after Secularism

Edited by Vincent Lloyd

In Telos 165 we focus our attention on Herbert Marcuse, and specifically on the intersection of Marcuse’s thought with religion and secularism. In its substance, Marcuse’s cultural criticism turns on the critique of the hegemonic secularism of modernity, which precluded the full development of human potential, individual creativity, and community belonging. While not a direct advocacy of religion, this critique nevertheless bears signs of an appeal to the traditional contents of religion by way of the characteristically critical-theoretical approach of a negative theology. The authors presented in this issue each draw out elements of this appeal in Marcuse’s work.

Introduction
Russell A. Berman

Marcuse the Lover
Vincent Lloyd

Beyond Bad Conscience: Marcuse and Affects of Religion after Secularism
Annika Thiem

Marcuse and "the Christian Bourgeois Concept of Freedom"
Vincent Geoghegan

Beyond Domination and Guilt: Marcuse's Political Theology between Oedipus and Christ
Christoph Schmidt

From Eros to Eschaton: Herbert Marcuse's Liberation of Time
Caroline Edwards

Herbert Marcuse on Jewish Identity, the Holocaust, and Israel
Zvi Tauber

Schmitt and Marcuse: Friends, Force, and Quality
Joseph Diaz

Toward an Embodied Utopia: Marcuse, The Re-Ordering of Desire, and the "Broken" Promise of Post-Liberal Practices
Joseph Winters

Religion, Freedom, and Justice in the Debates on Welfare in Germany
Timothy Haupt

Reviews

The New Evangelicals and the Future of the United States of America
Adrian Pabst

In Search of a Methodological Basis for the Critique of Neoclassical Economics
Klaus Solberg Søilen