ABSTRACT
"Positive philosophy" comes forth in Marcuse’s very personal treatment of classical marxism, but it also emerges from an independent treatment of the issues involved. In the discussion of “Philosophy and Critical Theory” the negative elements of the former are most sharply drawn out, and little is said of the positive elements of either social philosophy or the theory which is to replace it. In the co-operative society, outside the realm of necessity this relation holds true not only for the individually created or shaped objects, or for those “worked upon” in collaboration with a few others; it is equally valid for all the achievements of that society at large. Culture will not disappear in the new society - it will simply be transformed. These considerations on culture, which will be greatly expanded in postwar years, complete the picture of Marcuse’s "positive philosophy" in the thirties and forties.
