ABSTRACT
The radical idea was that a revolution would not merely be a kind of political or economic overthrow, but rather a fundamental transformation of world-view which would also mean, at least in Marcuses most utopian moments, a fundamental transformation in nature itself. Nature as he says would be treated as another subject by us; it would no longer be something to be dominated but rather something with which we could interact as a partner. This new sensibility would move beyond anthropocentrism, and would indeed be a liberation of nature. There is a great line in Counterrevolution and Revolt where Marcuse says: Nature too awaits the revolution. The revolution is not just for humans; we are doing it for nature's sake as well. And this involved, at perhaps its most radical moment, a notion of a kind of new science and a new technology, which Marcuse, at least at certain places, suggests is a real possibility.
