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{{short description|1972 book by Herbert Marcuse}}
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| image         = File:Counter-Revolution and Revolt (first edition).jpg
| caption       = Cover of the first edition
| author        = [[Herbert Marcuse]]
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| country       = United States
| language      = English
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| subjects      = [[Capitalism]], the [[New Left]]
| publisher     = [[Beacon Press]]
| pub_date      = 1972
| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 138
| isbn          = 0-8070-1532-6 |isbn_note= (casebound)<br />0-8070-1533-4 (paperback)
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'''''Counterrevolution and Revolt''''' is a 1972 book by the philosopher [[Herbert Marcuse]].
==Summary==
Marcuse writes that the western world has reached a new stage of development, in which "the defense of the capitalist system requires the organization of counterrevolution at home and abroad." He accuses the west of "practicing the horrors of the [[Nazi]] regime", and of helping to launch massacres in [[Indochina]], [[Indonesia]], the Congo, [[Nigeria]], [[Pakistan]], and the Sudan.{{sfn|Marcuse|1972|page=1}}
He discusses the problems of the [[New Left]], as well as other topics such as the political role of [[social ecology (academic field)|social ecology]]. Citing author [[Murray Bookchin]]'s ''[[Post-Scarcity Anarchism]]'' (1971), Marcuse argues that ecology must be taken "to the point where it is no longer containable within the capitalist framework" by "extending the drive ''within'' the capitalist framework." Marcuse offers a discussion of the role of nature in Marxist philosophy informed by philosopher [[Alfred Schmidt (philosopher)|Alfred Schmidt]]'s ''[[The Concept of Nature in Marx]]'' (1962).{{sfn|Marcuse|1972|pages=29, 61–62}}
Marcuse also offers a discussion of art, including literature and music, in relation to revolution. He cites [[Arthur Schopenhauer]]'s observation, in ''[[The World as Will and Representation]]'' (1818), that music "gives the innermost kernel preceding all form, or the heart of things".{{sfn|Marcuse|1972|pages=79–80, 100}}
==Publication history==
''Counterrevolution and Revolt'' was first published by [[Beacon Press]] in 1972.{{sfn|Marcuse|1972|pages=iv}}
==Reception==
In ''[[Theory & Society]]'', the intellectual historian [[Martin Jay]] called ''Counterrevolution and Revolt'' one of Marcuse's "major works". He suggested that Marcuse's comments about art reveal his indebtedness to [[Romanticism]].{{sfn|Jay|1982|pages=1, 6}} Brian Easlea described Marcuse's view that "Marx's notion of a human appropriation of nature is not altogether free from the hubris of domination" as courageous. He wrote that Marcuse "explicitly adds to his decades of social analysis a dimension that had always been implicit: the male-female relation", and that Marcuse's "condemnation of the established science and call for a new science would appear to be a condemnation of 'male' science and a call for a new 'female' science."{{sfn|Easlea|1981|page=25}} The philosopher Charles Crittenden considered Marcuse's advocacy of "working for change within the system" to be a retreat from his advocacy, in previous works such as ''[[An Essay on Liberation]]'' (1969), of revolutionary violence and confrontation as ways of achieving social transformation.{{sfn|Crittenden|2005|page=555}} Andrew Light compared Marcuse's views to those of Murray Bookchin.{{sfn|Light|1998|page=374}}
==References==
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* {{cite book |last1=Crittenden|first1=Charles |chapter=Marcuse, Herbert |editor-last1=Honderich|editor-first1=Ted |title=The Oxford Companion to Philosophy |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |year=2005 |isbn=0-19-926479-1 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Easlea|first1=Brian |title=Science and Sexual Oppression: Patriarchy's Confrontation with Woman and Nature |publisher=[[Weidenfeld and Nicolson]] |location=London |year=1981 |isbn=0-297-77894-3 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Light|first1=Andrew |chapter=Reconsidering Bookchin and Marcuse as Environmental Materialists: Toward an Evolving Social Ecology |editor-last1=Light|editor-first1=Andrew |title=Social Ecology after Bookchin |publisher=[[Guilford Press]] |location=New York |year=1998 |isbn=1-57230-379-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/socialecologyaft0000unse }}
* {{cite book |last1=Marcuse|first1=Herbert |title=Counterrevolution and Revolt |url=https://archive.org/details/counterrevolutio0000marc|url-access=registration|publisher=[[Beacon Press]] |location=Boston |year=1972 |isbn=0-8070-1533-4 }}
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* {{cite journal |title=Anamnestic totalization: Reflections on Marcuse's theory of remembrance |last1=Jay|first1=Martin |journal=[[Theory & Society]] |volume=11 |issue=1 |year=1982 |doi=10.1007/BF00173107|s2cid=146846698}} {{subscription required|via=[https://www.ebsco.com EBSCO]'s Academic Search Complete}}
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