ABSTRACT
The interpretation of Hegelian Reason as mere subjective raison, the reason of the empirical individual, rather than the Christian Logos. For Hegel, says Herbert Marcuse, “the distinction between intellect and reason is the same as that between common sense and speculative thinking, between undialectical reflection and dialectical knowledge. Hegel hit upon the same fact within the dimension of philosophy. The true direction of Marcuse’s position lies in the so-called critique of science. The conseqence of Marcuse’s argument is an indiscriminate indictment of science and technology, or, to use Marcuse’s expression, of “industrial society.” Marcuse’s Great Refusal is defined precisely by its a historicity. For Marcuse, alienation and fetishism are not the product of wage labor, of the world or commodities, and capital. Marcuse’s position, which is certainly not that of the economists, nevertheless repeats its operations, but in the opposite sense.
