Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic, by Alasdair Maclntyre. New York: Viking Press. 114 pp. $1.65. Herbert Marcuse compels attention because he is, or is said to be, one of the more influential social philosophers of our time. Yet …
In last year’s U.S. pavillion at the Montreal World’s Fair I noticed a sign reading: Hall of the Great Society —Emergency Exit. Let’s take that exit right now! After the obscene happening at Chicago that went by the name of Democratic …
Ever since men climbed down from the trees and found it necessary to establish ground rules, they have fought over hat those rules shall be. They have fought longest, and perhaps most bitterly, over the most fundamental rule of all—the …
In logic, as in common sense, we understand that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time. No man can meet himself coming around a corner; nor can he serve, much as it might amuse him …
if some of the more extravagant reviews of Bertrand de Jouvenel’s Sovereignty are to be believed, this book is nothing less than a classic. The London Times Literary Supplement proclaimed it “a remarkable achievement . . . a great work …
Politics, as everyone knows, is the art of drawing distinctions. It involves, to be sure, the pursuit and use—as well as the misuse—of power; but we seek that power for the potential good, not the evil, that its possession affords. …
