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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: Herbert Marcuse's "New Sensibility"
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 44
Liberation Series, Part 2 of 4
Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential Leftist thinkers of the 1950s and 1960s, and for that reason he is often regarded as the father of the "New Left," which is reaching something of a crescendo in the Woke Movement of today. His goal was straightforward: liberation. In 1969, he wrote an influential essay (or short book) called "An Essay on Liberation" in which he explains what liberation looks like and how we should achieve it. So that you can better understand the moment we find ourselves in...